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INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 The early I)i>*fory ol Ireland, like ilnit of most Eiiropenn countries, In 
 mixed u)i with liible ; still thoro iiro iin-qMivociil proofs to be found 
 in the surviving truces of its primitive letters, to show th.ii, b 'foru 
 the Crmad-»s, [relunJ w.is not oily a djnsjiy peopL-d, but hijjhiy 
 enlij^'htoned country. The first Professor of Miiihemiitics limt ever 
 sat on the Cliair of an En^Hish University was an Irishinin, and was 
 honored wiih the p.itr()nii!.re and prefermjniof Alfred the Great, from 
 whom ho rocj'ivfd the (Jmir, and abn^r with it the complimeniary 
 desi}rnalion (,f Joannes Milhematkus Hihnnicas. That the ancient 
 Ab!)eys, whose ruins arc now a source of attraction to visitors from 
 foreijrn con'itrics, were schools of science and iheolo^ry, cannot be 
 dispiiiHd. The venerable BiJa an I others have r^'corded the namjs 
 of miny disiinjrnished sclioiurs and iiviii is 0:1 the contin jnt of Kfirope, 
 who rcceiv.id their early e-iucation in Hibjrnia. Apart from tlio fibu- 
 Inns and le_'ondiry stori-s upm w'lic.h tin ttoni-i Ciiimlic wriinrs 
 biso fhoir exclusive claims to tho Pitron Siiut of tho island, there 
 seems to be evidence of a purely historicil character, to justily the 
 asseriion that he established a pure and ajmstolic faith am-rngst rude 
 inhabitants ; that he pi lutej a sjction of tlie Christian Church in its 
 primitive form, in the north, that he irivelleJ ovar tho greater port! m 
 of country and that ho ordained 3fJj Uishop^, assijrning'each a con;,rre- 
 ffuion. It is now i,'en3rally believed by mj^t Protestants, both Episco- 
 pal an I I'rjsijyterian, tliit th3 a'w/o statemiuts rest on reliable cvi- 
 diinoo. Ajrain, that the Christian religion h id a foothold in the Island 
 prior to the twelfth cm'unj, is a fact which hw will dispute ; h' 
 tiiat Itonian Cath(.hcity did not exist in Irelanl prior to that century 
 is equally obvious. In 1 17 J (according to lluma, and all authentic 
 historians of that parioi,) Ifenrv II. of il.i^lm,\, at the insii„ration of 
 the Pope, A Irian the ill., invidjj IrelanJ. Tud Rjmin PoiititF ww 
 by birth an Englishman, and on this accoui.t inclined to advance the 
 interests, and extend the territorial dom: ilons of his Royal subordi- 
 nate, especially while, in doing so, he was paving the way for the en- 
 Inrgenientof hisown secular and sacred jurisdiction. Believing that, 
 in tlie subjugation of Ireland to tho British throne, lie would find an 
 important adjunct to hisown see, and, tliereby, a considerable augmen- 
 tation to die revenue arising from St. Peter s Chair ; he issued "a bull 
 in 11.06 authorizing the British .Monarch to invade the Western 
 Island. At this time Ireland was diviied into live petty sovereignties, 
 Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Meath, and Connaugia, with a King over 
 eucli. Henry felt somewhat reluctant in yielding a peremptory obe- 
 dience to the Pontifical mandate, for it was not till sixteen years after 
 the Ball wa« issued that the army of Henry landed on Irish soil, and 
 
^^ IXTHODtrCTION. 
 
 evr^n then his pretext was to aid one of tho Princes, who had been 
 cxilc-d .0 England, in rojrui„i„y |d. crown. Althotii-h .he avowed 
 object of Po,,o Adri.u. in abetting this c..nr|„e«t, was to convert li,o 
 Wand to Christianity, ,hi. was not his r.ul one. We aliego that 
 Christianity existed in Ireland prior to this invasion. The aim of 
 the ontiff was to enlarge his territorial and ecclesiastical revenue, 
 and hence the first act of Henry subsequent to the conquest, was to 
 levy a tax of one penny on each house to be paid to the see of Rome, 
 it i« obvious that tho Roman system had no existence in Ireland prior 
 to 1 172, (or It it e.Nisted already, there was no necessity for conqueriiiff 
 the island with a view to introduce it; and again, if the Romish 
 faith existed in the land prior to the conquest of Henry, it must have 
 been tributary to the Roman See, and, therefore, why pass a law to 
 impose a tux which already e.xisted : tt is tlierelore manifest ;>.s/, 
 froni Adriati's bull, and secondly, from Henrys act of taxaiion, that 
 the Roman Catholic faith had no existence in this country before the 
 12th century. Bu. there is indisputable evidence to prove that Ciirib- 
 tianity was disseminated throughout Ireland before this time, there- 
 fore It could not have been Romi.h Christianity. It is not the object 
 however, ol these introductory remarks to dwell so much in historical 
 details as on the present condition and future prospects of this inter- 
 esttng country ; and while we drop a tear of sorrow over its bleak 
 and gloomy history in the past, and its sad destitution at present, we 
 would cherish the fond hope that the sun of its prosperity is ri.ing 
 in the future, and that a land long sunk in spiritual and temporal 
 degradation, will yet rise to her natural position, and takin<r her place 
 among the nations of the earth, will be 
 
 " As she ought to be — 
 
 Great sjlorious and free ; 
 
 First Isle of the 0!;ean, 
 
 First gem of the sea." 
 It seems a strange problem, that with a climate and soil so well 
 suited 10 agricultural purposcs-with a peasantry so energetic, and so 
 capable by their industry of enriching themselves and others on the 
 western shore of the Atlantic-with an industry, before wliich the 
 woods of Canada, and the prairies of the far west, are converted into 
 the most prolific and fertile gardens ; that, with all this, Ireland's land 
 Wners should be bankrupt, and her peasantry in a state of pe.iury. 
 bundry causes have b-en assigned for the evil. One class of noliii- 
 cal economists will trace all the miseries of Ireland to the absentee- 
 ism of the landowner; another will trace a!! her grievances to a 
 dominant church ; another to the ignorance and natural incapacity of 
 the masses. And each of these will find some plausible datooa 
 
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 which to biiilil his thoorv, whilo perhaps the real canse Is a combina- 
 tion of the whole, tonethor with th.' natural toiiiJoacy of the prevnii- 
 inp religion in tlie Island. It i8 a fact which cannot bo disputed, that 
 the Romish faith dries not tend to elicit or foster ihe native spirit of 
 industry and self reliance, which God has implanted in man's bosom. 
 Tlie history of uU Roman Catholic countries proves this. Why is 
 Canada West at this moment progressing at such a rapid ratio, while 
 Canada E.ist is standing still : the reply is obvious, Romanism pre- 
 vails in the one, but not in the other. Still we must not omit the 
 consideration that Ireland has been treated by Great Britain as a con- 
 quered colony, and that the religion of her inhabitants disqualified her 
 sons from holding any civic or municipal office under the British 
 throne; test oaths were exacted, the receipt of the sacrament of the 
 liord's Supper was placed at tlie threshold of every public office, and 
 a Roman Catholic was debarred from sitting in the halls of Imperial 
 Legislation, to represent the civil interests of his own countrymen, 
 though every one of his constituents were of his own persuasion. 
 We admit that there is just cause of complaint in all this, yet it seems 
 strange that those who complain so bitterly of being obliged to submit 
 an extorted obedience tea civil power, should so willingly and heartily 
 yield a submissive allegiance to a foreign and spiritual power. That 
 th§ very parties who cry so loudly against the authority of the Eng- 
 lish monarch, submit so tamely to the imperial fiat of the Romish 
 Hierarch. In addition to all this, it must be taken into account by the 
 very parties who thus complain, that the British Monarch is under the 
 anathema of the Pontiff of Rome, whose spiritual subjects they are. 
 In consequence of this it is in the very nature of things unreasonable 
 to expect a hearty allegiance to English Monarchy from any con- 
 sistent Roman Catholic subje- 1 1 1 the empire. And, farther, the 
 bishop of Rome claiming uni,3>-ial supremacy, circa sacra et circa 
 cVi/ia, is virtuiilly a foreign power to the Irish peasant; and we 
 cannot see that he has any greater reason to complain of the obedi- 
 ence required by the authoriiy, within whose realms he resides, than 
 that of an authority beyond it. The majority of the inhabitants of 
 Ireland are of the Romish persuasion, and are under the control of a 
 priesthood much less enlightened, and consequently much more 
 bigotted than that of any country in Europe. To this fact in a 
 main degree may be traced the hereditary and perennial dislike to 
 Bniish Monarchy which is found every where among Irish Catholics, 
 and hence, moreover, Ihe sad destruction of every feeling of common 
 nationality among emigrants from Ireland to this country. The 
 
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 priesthood aihJ tlio c<>ns,.m>m..n . «P"-' "Jl- Tlio po;ver of tlio 
 an imores,i„,/s L:;; Zr '' ""'--">' '-''^. -■• b. 
 
 and his ramily he s'".l7r ," '"'•*'^^'^'""''- Like Jacob 
 
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 no., and nrospe itv in a L ? ''"""" "'' '^''•'"=''- ''^PP'" 
 
 thin., of the Sof ; : t:,l Th:""";^ "' ^^'^ ''-' '^ 
 
 and gn.„,nar. those valu d doZ of ' 7 "' "'''"°"'' 
 
 limited, have been the stdi.f T ." "^"""'°" "''"''''' """'y'' 
 
 He thinks ofT "'"' P'-'^'-'^'^no '« '"dependence in thi. free soli 
 
 where the ashes of his sires sleeo hv Tl 1 I f r S'^'^y"'^ 
 myriads of poverty-stricke.: Sii!::^'!: l^'.!:; ^J::^ ^^ '- 
 sunk m ignorance, become endeared to hi.n- Z ' v .> °' '"'^- 
 his imagination runs over the ian,l l,n i ' "'"^ \^'"'° ""? eye of 
 and asks his God ''Ha' TJr u ''" '"°'^' "P '" '"^^^«" 
 
 mercyclean.on :" ZlX^'lf 'f .^"^!°"^ ""'^ '^ '"/ 
 
 though the GudofNatio.;^:;;?':.::-^""'"""''"""^^ 
 
 of her redemption draweth ne r "2 1"''^"«»-" The time 
 
 and the very^ud,ment;::;r::^ieh h .^^ ^ri'^^r^-^^- 
 prepared the way for exchanging the owner c!f th/f^'''u' 
 very fa.nino by which the country wa^ Z e s Z L .''' 
 converted into a national blessing Ti.ree ^earnl" " ''''" 
 
 at work, and the result of their ^on^o^:,^:^;: -::Z 
 conversion, certainly the enlightonmont of Ireian,. ' '^'^ 
 
 interests of the island are liappily Z a mo tth , ''''"'^^"""^I 
 
 condition; the great prob.e 'n^^a nlnl ' "l" "^'/ir^^"' 
 
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 "•" ♦•'« '"'« c„„H,.li.|at ,n „',;,, "'.^''''^J'-'^". f-"r were, 
 r<.li.ico.roli,io,w r "'^"'^ re.,>rclive incu,„Uen,,s bore the 
 
 and Men. oli.o„ T „ f ^^'^'^7" """ of Irdand, ,|,e I'rin.a.o 
 
 of u. arci,...;,; ^;, : ,,,^.t:d ',;T-'r"""T ""•" '^^° 
 
 vera! ol ll,o 8uflW..rnM« m . l"»l"opricks, and so- 
 
 «i.ions. and b "do? ''"^ """ "'""'^^ eccl.sia.tical po- 
 
 ^7478 ; Tuam. iso.O Du '^03 f /'"y'r •"? '' ^ ^""'""' 
 
 imporlantch n' 's r:^^^^^^^^^ revenue J.s undergone a very 
 
 %tho ,ate co;.:;; " L acML",:?"^" "T ^^'■»""'^^- 
 as a separate tax on .},. . • '''* "'^ "° ^°"ff'''' 'evied 
 
 and th s pass Li c7; ."' "[' ''"' "'"' *^" '^"' °^ »'- '"'"J* 
 hands of u;'i^^^^^^^^^^^^^ '"'''^-">'- ^-"^ "- tenant into ti.e 
 
 much more pirsan 2 "T"""''' ''-''^'' '° *''^ ^'-^"'^^ '« ^ 
 
 n.ini.ra,rns1e doe lt;L T'"^' '" T"^''"^^ '^ ^'"^^ ^^''°- 
 0/ Enpland. as by Tawn , 7l ! ^"^ "''" "'^ "^'"'''" '^'' '''« ^J^urch 
 
 colonic "s^^^'r ft 1!'; ■^'''"" "■" "" '"''' «^ *'- ^V-'-n 
 
 against the e.t iil " TTT ''''"^'"'' ^'''' ''"'^y '''^^'^'"'ed 
 
 ctubhoianu.i 01 Aiifchcan 1 ro.c.tantism in Uiat island. 
 
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 INTRODTTOTION. 
 
 Sensible though we nre of many of tJie evils connected with such a 
 system, we mii.st own, that we cannot join in the popular ontcry* ; it 
 seems to us that greater evils woulcthave existed had there been no 
 such establishment in the country than now exist with it. That 
 many of the clergy have not fulfilled the great end of the ministerial 
 calling, we freely admit ; but what church on earih is free from the 
 same charge ? Besides, the Irish Protesant Church has enriched 
 the literature and the theology of Europe by her colleges and her 
 clergy. Some of the most talented and pious men in Evangelical 
 Christendom may be found at this moment among the ranks of Irish 
 Episcopalians, and within the last few years this church, as if awoke 
 from a long sleep, has been sending forth her very best and most 
 pious men into the darkest regions of the country ; and already she 
 can boast of many glorious triumphs over the antagonism of the 
 man of sin. The present Bishop of Cashel is an ornament to Evan- 
 gelical Christendom, and within his diocese the Lord has been ac- 
 complishing a great work.f 
 
 The VVesleyan Methodists have for many years been occupy- 
 ing leading posts in the central and more lemote districts. This 
 Evangelical body have been among the very first to sow the seeds of 
 gospel truth in the south and west ; their venerable founder visited 
 the country, preaching in many of the leading towns during his tour, 
 
 * The political leanings of Dr. Dill have in a few insfnnces tempted 
 him into the use of laneuage respecting the Church of England which 
 would not be endorsed by many of the most distinsruished men in the 
 Presbyterian Assembly. And it is lo be regretted that either his preju- 
 dices, or his politics, should betray him into a reflection ii^ninst a Body 
 which the Lord is honouring at this moment in a high degree in the 
 dissemination of Evangelical truth throughout the South and West of 
 Ireland. The Anglo and Scoto ProtePtnnt Churches of Britain, have 
 been labouring with renewed energy since 1S47 in the same wide field, 
 and we believe with the same view, and have been " provoking each 
 other to love and good works," and we have no doubt that every Chris- 
 tian man in Canada is prepared to bid ihern both " God speed." 
 
 +NoTE. — Hnvine introduced a specimen of the Evangelicism of theAn- 
 glo-Irish pulpit in Bishop Daily, we might be permitted to add one of the 
 literary power by which that pulpit is at present sustained. We refer to 
 Dr. Edward Hineks. of Killelengh. one of the most learned m<n in Eu- 
 rope. He took a Fellowship in Trinity College, Dublin, at the almo'^* 
 unprecedented age of twenty-one; and prior to his incumhencv, in his 
 present charge, published some books on the higher branches of Philology. 
 His recent " Translations" of the " Kliorsi»bnd Inscriptions," being a con- 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. |jj 
 
 oml in all the principal parts are important and flourinhing stations 
 II. connexion with the English conffrence. 
 
 PKEsBVTER,ANs.-The Presbyterian Church of the North has 
 been^ exceed.n,.y favored by God in her late efforts in behalf of Ire- 
 land s conversion to the truth. To the Canadian reader it may not 
 be unMUerestu.g to .nve a very brief abstract of the state of Pro.bv- 
 cr..n.n pPior to her late movement of aggression in the Soutb'a.fd 
 WeM He original founders of this Church were emigrants from 
 Nor, Briiain, and the hrst Presbytery forming the nuclctus o w^ 
 has MMce become an important ecclesiastical interest in the E n^re 
 
 1 he Rev. Mr. hurd, a Scotch Establishment nmn'ster bein. modera- 
 te . preached the moderation serm ,ro,„ P.alm LI. v^rse 17^ 
 Do goodin thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of 
 
 Beir 7; • V T'"" '^•"'"'='''^«'"^" '•'- """^'d by Mr. M.Comb of 
 
 Belfast n his Presbyterian Almanac for 1812, is worthy of r.ote viz 
 at tn 812 the Rov. Dr. Cook held the same o:fice. preac ^^i'n ho" 
 
 •same place, and Irom the same text exactly 200 years after' nd 
 nring ti.se 200 years the Presbytery of hve n.ini'sters ha g'ro „ 
 "to an Assem y of 500. It must be owned that for ,nany Zr" 
 
 the growth of Presbyterianism in Ulster was very slow, and th 
 
 mmb,rot English Puritans settled in Dublin, and in some of the 
 leading southern towns, and in the latter year the synod oTmuh ter 
 was onned, which though nominally Presbyterian was no re ^ . 
 And hence being a mi.xture of semi-Presbyterianism and 
 Congre„at,onahsm, it gradually merged into Unitarianism. " Is"? 
 aga n he Presbytery of Antrim, which liad been lapsin^simul nt 
 ously mto Unitarianism, separated from the Synod Jurri 
 sus^amed^mc^^ ,,„ ,,, ,^.,^, ^, Z,-;^;;^ Ulster.^^and 
 
 wmien. InJee.i. .he la,|,:; Q . .^H "of;'!..'';'"' ^^'''''" '^""''^ '"-'« 
 diHirtiom Dr. Hincks ,n politics -vlnTli .''''"'' '"'''*" "* «'''''» 
 
 by wl.o.e re«ea4hesand .;: :L hfrM^: r"'' 7^ ^'- '->-'. 
 
 been revived. Dr. U.nck. i. broXr t , ht II f . r'."* """^""^ '""^ 
 of thisP,ovince-by «|,„se veiieruMe ,1 ''.'' l'>-'P'cl..r General 
 
 lation.- was la.eiy p,e meclV^ he le . P '"''* "' "f" "''"^'^ " I''-""- 
 
 be tet-jj. L.wmt} oi tnat in=ijiuif, whuie a nmy 
 
 /, 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 1831, an inf-Hior, of U,,it.irianis., remained in the Ulnter Synod Tl.o 
 
 C. oke. 0/ Uouas,. b.iug tl.o leader on tl.e si.io ulor.l.odo.xy, u-u. .i.. 
 
 ^y"->d. -mJ /rom 18J3 till l^u. th. Sya„J of UUter .m if 
 released Iro.n u pon lerou. incubus, increased at the rate of Jn new 
 congregations unuuaiiy. 
 
 Ch.M/^^r < •^'"'" '"°'"'''''""" '■" ^''""^^'i"" with the Secession 
 U..i J. .,» 6co.a,KJ was (oand.,] in Ireland. whic'Mnain.ainc.d the 
 great principles of orthaJ,.x Presbyteriaois.n with ,nuch laiihnilness 
 an ,.r.w very ra,Uly in Ul.ter umil 18 U, .,U.n tne Synod of Ulster' 
 a .J it merged into on., thus for.nin. a ,no,t inU.en.ial an I r.spec.a- 
 bl. or.a:.,.a,o.. ..f ,„.., ,• .))) c . .,r..ru.o u w th s.t.l.M ,M.,tori b - 
 '^.Jesson.hanJroJproba.ion.rsanJ un,.n,yoyeJ ministers. In i8li 
 the 13.ce,Hen:iry y.arofth3 C, ..re's 'list, ry. a ,n .... n s.t wis sot 
 oa h.ot by Dr « 1,,^ .„• B,,,. an I a few mh.s. and sus.a ■ d I 
 hearty and unanin.>:.s elF.ts of th3 w.ole Church to raise 'a 
 undo. som3XJJ,a)Js,erlin., to be called the Bicentenary fund 
 e proceeds ol v.nc w.r. to be devot.J exclusi.eiy to t, ' Irish 
 Hon.3 Alission. Tnus it w.s that in the Bicentenary year, he Church 
 commenced her work of E..n,eliz:.ti..n i„ earnesl; true it is tl 
 b3.ore this she had b.en duin, a liule, but it was a very li.tle i 
 the leaJin, towns south an I west ol th. metropolis, such a. Car. 
 w,K> Kenny vVe.xlord, Hoss, Corl, Coninel, Tipperary, Liuier- 
 ick, and Ban on. Tnese were leadin. stations sustained chi.fly by 
 ^coich and Northern settlers, merchants, bankers. &c.. but the 
 Church never seemed to feel till I8i2 that her Kin. «nd Head called 
 her to do a preat work, nor till that year did she j^ive her hearty 
 response to the call. In this memorable year of her hisf.y, Mr 
 3IcComb of Belfast who has always been a warm friend of her mi«. 
 stons, published a poem, an extract from which we subjoin in com- 
 memor.u.on of the important epoch, and a tribute of praise »or iho 
 noble exertions which nhe resolved to make on behalf of the myriads 
 of southern p,)asa.itry who were without the Word of God. anil with- 
 out a knowled,'e of .vilvation by the blood of tlie Lamb :_ 
 
 t'7 I'm .l''''' ri"" '? ?'• "''"' '"'"" ''■" " ^c""""'!"'' «'ormy land. 
 1 o Caiuck s old and loitresa lowu a P.eibyiermu baud. 
 
 >1 
 
>] 
 
 xi 
 
 INTRODTTCTION. 
 
 They pinnted on the castle wall the banner of the blue 
 Aud wur.lnpped Uod in si.npic. lorn. u. i'.e.l,y,.r,nn« do; 
 01. hallowc-d be the,r u.emu.y who „, our h.„d d.d .ow 
 i he goodly seed ot go.pel truth, two hundred years ago ! 
 
 Two hundred years ago was heard upon -he tenth of June 
 
 Do JnT^r, ?tf '^ "^^"''-■'■ °^'^'"^'' ""'' P'"!"' ^'"l' solemn tune- 
 fell f^ ^T^ P'""^"'" ^"'•"' ""•" "'y Zion here, 
 i lie walls of our Jerusalem esiablibh ihou and rear " 
 
 J bus prayer and prai.e were made to God, nor dread of Papist foe 
 Dmu.y.a our lathers m iheir wo.k. two hundred years aco ' 
 
 Two hundred years ago oVr graves the blue hrath droope*d its head * 
 i he purpl.. hea.her .adiy wav.d above the honored dead 
 And ':'■-' "y/'^-^y "'V''^ '""-"'« lav'rock e.-a.ed to .o.r, 
 
 Is nL f .'" " "'"^'"'"g '^'""•'-•1'. but He who made her so 
 
 is nigh to aid her as He was, two hundred years ago ! 
 
 Two hundred years ago the hand of massacre was ni-h, 
 
 u , '^''.'by.erian Ul^er reKs in bappn.e.-s and peace 
 
 VV hile cni.u's in diMant provinces lion, year lo y.ar increase • 
 
 PW IWrv i", '"'''^^ '"^""^ •""; -'^'— in '^-h Umt flow, 
 i-oi X opiry js the tnnie it was, two hundred years ago ! 
 
 Ten years have only elapsed since thia good and unanimous elTort 
 was made by ihe Irish Presbyterian church for ihe conversion o( the 
 land to God, and its success in ihe time has been almost miraculous- 
 every event that hefel the nation since seemed a direct indication 
 from God that the church should proceed. Famine came, and with 
 It the cry of hunger, and the voice of death were rising from every 
 hamlet, and issuing from every home, ihey v^ ere accompanied by a 
 cry tor the Protestant Bible, and the Mitnst.r of Christ to expound 
 H. And thus the power of the priesthood was sliaken. Free trade 
 iegi^lat.on, and a general panic passed throughout the land, but it was 
 lollowed by on universal impression that the land owner must lower 
 his rents Arid thus another way for at least a partial independence 
 01 thottghtand i.ction was opened up, and all those events have been 
 overruled by the God of nations to prepare Ireland for the blessed 
 word of I,|P, ,he only cure for her long protracted and desperate woes 
 An adm,r«o]e pap..r was read on Irehmd. as a field of missions, b; 
 the Rev. Dr. L.'gar of Belfa.^t, before the late meeting of ihe Evan- 
 gd.cal Alliarc. in Dublin ; which has been extensively circulated 
 tlirougf, the mediun of many „f our religious journals. We believ« 
 U wUi do m unraeiisity oi good, aa ii will awake Uie eynipaihiea and 
 
lii 
 
 WTRODtrcTrow. 
 prayers of EvanMfcai r,„: , , 
 
 acter nn,i b"'^p^i , It We wni.iw , I "^'^ com- 
 
 manner: H» ... , , r """'ons hp wnuM i- **""' "' ten mil/;, ►, 
 
 'houM stand ,„,,f : " P""',' ^"y. of funn ten ^ ,''""'*' ''' P'^ce of |,„"f 
 
 -Oo«w//i.. an.lto tJie P. /"'"" <"f}iJivalent ,n ,u ^'^'^^'-y 'Minn 9 
 
 those of,,,, P.e.Me.5:r'r'''"^',^^"- nunt, ';/:-'" ^^^'-« 
 "seoftlie parish cfiurcC f ""'""''^ "^^^^.n an en '".'in "^'^'"""'s. equal 
 a congregation ^ '„ ^"'"Jl ""ininal re„,. a le^ ' 1'""""'' "''"^ "" 
 nbsorb three out of .hrtenJf'"'" ""•"'^ "hjects he --'T'''''^^' had 
 made free grants ,„ 7 ^' '''«" -'"ms allotted ,,nu\ ^''*'"' ^"'u*- to the 
 
 '« would be satisfied '''J'^.r'n'^'''"''"' '>e d i, K:';,"''""- '"' 'he 
 rensonio comp'ain Tif '''^ P'oteMont bodi^ , ,'^""''''" f^'uiho- 
 
 'he pnrpces^^ g "„er„L^^^*'"^.'""i"S ^eve „ , n.^'"''^ have no ^^ 
 
 lion* Urn jg jiow ann.!! ^ ?"" have the whole h ^ }"'"'"^^ "'' ire- 
 
icJi «s a sphere 
 'ouiid u most 
 •'. wliiie at the 
 The errand 
 ?o«pel of ihe 
 f discord, and 
 ^' of Chriht. 
 ■ shores ^ive 
 '"i her com- 
 '""'o/ial cha- 
 f the earth, 
 ''*' 'rotn the 
 ^'C' en)/)loy- 
 'he ediica- 
 <^"minionM, 
 nJ ransom 
 fd eteruaJ 
 
 Je session, 
 
 ^^''Jicnisjn 
 ' ^''giutn 
 ' J^oiiiaii 
 "fst (he 
 ^'if pro- 
 ,'"illions 
 allowing 
 
 f of liind 
 '. which 
 y'f'inns 
 
 '• tqiial 
 i'h the 
 ey hdd 
 
 Would 
 'o ihe 
 tin be 
 on (he 
 ^uilio- 
 just 
 ''v to 
 ^ In-. 
 
 mil- 
 L" 
 
 THE MYSTERY SOLYED, &c. 
 
 PART I. 
 THE MISERIES. 
 
 APPEARANCE OP THE COITNTRY—COMMERCK— 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 The present condition of Ireland is perhaps without a nar 
 allel amongst the nations of the earth. ^ ^^^' 
 
 Misery has long been thts country's peculiar portion Hor 
 h story has been written with tears and blood. He children 
 are famahar with sackcloth and ashes. But in Gc^'s awAiI 
 p^v.dence she seems at length to have reached the cl max o} 
 woe, and is now passmg through such a complication of 
 rn.ene«. as has excited the astonishment and PyTf the 
 
 CHAPTER [. 
 
 GENERAL WRETCHEDNESS. 
 
 The first thing that stiikes the traveller, is the air of A^ 
 lafon which be^gins to pervade whole distr c s-esn d^^^ 
 Munstcr and Connaught. As he winHpro .i 7^7 " 
 provinces, he sees half'decaytd Ln? v h '^t i' "^ 
 flounshmg as to send members to the Irish parliament H« 
 finds whole villages in ruins so complete. thaSLr.^cm-h 
 but a raw tottenng wall-steads, to tell that the hum oHife was 
 
* THE MISEHIES. 
 
 ever there. In some cnscn, even those monuments of JrsoTa- 
 tion hfive disappearod, und the coachinnn points to a bare 
 deserted spot, as the site of a lormer hamlet. And as to tho 
 destruction of farmsteads and cabins, he can scarce move m 
 any direction but the scene appeurh as if some invading army- 
 had passed by. 
 
 He finds on inquiry, thai this decadence had commenced 
 long prior to the famine, and was only hastened by ti)at fear- 
 ful visitation. On the eve of that calamity, and while yet the 
 tide of events flowed in its usual channels, Ireland contained 
 one-third the population, whh oue-fiiurth the surface of 
 the United Kingdom; and yet her nntifHial revenue was not 
 one eleventh, being Jt4,r)0(),()()() sf-rling out of i:52,000,(t00. 
 The registered tonnage of her shipping was not one twelfth, 
 being 250,000 tons to m^ar 3,-.>.')0,0(K). And the proportion 
 of persons employed in her factories was one twenty-third, 
 in round numl)ers, 23,000 10 540,000 ;* while her agrieuUural 
 condition could scarce be compared to Britain's — there being 
 then in Ireland near 1,000,000 of holdings on 13,500,000 
 of acres of arable surface. And of these holdings, one 
 seventh did not exceed 1 Bcre each ; one third consisted of 
 from 1 to 5 acres ; not one twentieth were above 50 acres 
 each ; and two thirds, at least, were wretchedly cultivated.f 
 If we look to the circumstances of the population of that 
 period, our results are not Jess remarkable. While the Eng- 
 lish upper classes have long been the wealthiest in the world, 
 few of the Irish were even out of debt, and numbers were 
 hopelessly embarrassed. While the Knglish middle classes 
 have long been surrounded with comforts, Ireland can scarce 
 be said to have ever had a middle class. And of the few that 
 existed, the means ware so slender, that often the Irish mer- 
 chant was poorer than the English clerk ; and the Irish far- 
 mer would have been thankful for the food which English ser- 
 Tants threw away ; while the entire agricultural class, repre- 
 ■enting seven tenths of Ireland's substance, were fast sinking 
 into poverty. How, then, shall we compare the lower classes 
 of both countries — the starved Irish peasant in his wretched 
 hut, with the happy English hind in his cheerful cottage ? 
 More than three fourths of all the dwellings in Ireland were 
 
 * See Thorn's Irish Stntistics for 1848, pp. 54, 177, 178, 182; Oliver 
 and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac for 1848, pp. 141, 141, 142. 
 
 t See Thorn's Statistios, 1649, pp. 168, 169. 
 
 ^? 
 
of JosoTa- 
 to a bfire 
 as to iho 
 I move iri 
 fing army 
 
 mmenced 
 that fenr- 
 )e yet the 
 contained 
 urfdce of 
 I was not 
 ,000,(100. 
 ! twelfth, 
 iroportion 
 nty-third, 
 rieulturul 
 ere being 
 1,500,000 
 ngs, one 
 rsisted of 
 50 acres 
 ivsted.f 
 n of that 
 the Eng- 
 le world, 
 ers were 
 3 classes 
 n scarce 
 few that 
 ish mer- 
 rish far- 
 ^lishser- 
 !S, repre- 
 t sinking 
 r classes 
 V retched 
 cottage ? 
 nd were 
 
 2} Oliver 
 
 GENERAL WRETCHEDNESS. 
 
 T 
 
 V 
 
 at that p-riod huiUof niiid. N 
 
 8 
 
 in Ireland livod in dwcliiriirs of I, 
 
 onrone half of all the famil 
 
 lea 
 
 Two thirds of th 
 
 )ut one a[)artm(nt each.* 
 
 and 
 
 suhsistc'd on potatoes. N.-,i 
 and in distress tiiirty wooks in tl 
 
 « entire population liv.d l,y manual laho 
 
 ^ur, 
 
 one third wore out of work. 
 
 That nation must have L ', on S .-^^^ of poverty or sloth. 
 
 ^'■y could so c^:,", , oi' '" r'n^;:'- ' -«J' « -la. 
 
 domonstrate that Irel .i.rl LoT , '^^"^'^ statistics 
 
 were already so in nov^l.rf ^""*">f '"S-"'at the people 
 
 population wos S 17r, S a ,' '"" J^"""" '?'"«. "'<> 
 
 ka<l reached ,l,a. .m"Zf^^^''\^'"^ """'J^ l-'f '"d J' 
 on V 6 5K, 70J ii "' ioiu. let it was found to bo 
 
 With n about .S7f)nnn Ir i ■ , '™ ' ^'"s number s 
 
 of Scotland VVe 1 ave onlvTl '^T' '° '"^-^ ''''''' P"P">«'io" 
 total extinc ion of ttseoifsh '.?.;*•'''': '' T^'"' '^^ «''"°«^ 
 estimate of our?osEro!n-'°",' '" °'-^«'' »« ^<^^rn some 
 
 1,3S4.360 dwelling.; in elund ' A T'" '"^'.^ ''^'^'"' ^^^'"^ 
 i«M tu ""b* '" "cinna. AccordiniT to the PAnQ.ia ^r 
 
 ?>?"i'fhe"^^a^;;i:-:;L-lrc'f;^^SF - 
 
 «„7 tlHir""' ''■•'" "■- i-drcKl,,f » i'^d^^^- 
 In 184=S ,V"" ^"'' "'•'"' ';'"' ''""''■^''' ^"' save no more." 
 In 1845 there were, as already stated, near 1,000,000 of hold- 
 • Census for 1841. 
 t Third Report, Poor Inquiry Commission. 
 
THE MrSRRlES. 
 
 k 
 
 ings in Ireland ; and of th 
 
 from 1 fnr,::":' "■■',"' '"'s number, those which contained 
 
 W,2 .0 individuals- more than one filth of the pop. laiion 
 he census of 1851 has revealed the awful fact^C nea 
 th ee fourths of this entire class have been swept nway-there 
 dual! r'^L'^"; f '''' '"'•""^"•^' •''"^'P-'^-g ^49,70^ int ! 
 teroun,,!!V' ' '"""T'"' '^^' ^^ ^^^ the holdings which 
 ^nn. th" ^I """■'' "r"*'^' °"" f"'"'have disappeared, invol- 
 vng the clearance of 1,50 ,000 souls. All this in a few 
 so., years! yet even now, the depoptriation goe on as a 
 p d y as ever. Who that has a heart can read these detads 
 
 SAND DWKLLiNos swept away ! And in these the pulse of 
 
 s ^witbT'l-^'"' ""■";','>■ ' ^" "''^^"'•^ ^"^^ «"d"--d fh pea- 
 sant with feelings as well as the prince. To these the noor 
 
 ZltZ^'lT'V'' ''''"^ ^" ''^^^' ther'no'drub 
 
 . spent yeais of humble contentment, cheered amidst their 
 
 sorrows by each other's love. There the mother has mile 
 
 and the hardy father has had his toils beguiled by the inno 
 cen prattle of his little ones. And there, foo, hav^\l ey Ten 
 way^nr"' \''-'-/'y'"f? -bers, and in their own Yumb e 
 
 CHAPTER ir. 
 
 THE FAMINE. 
 
 h3^^ are the general statistics of our depopulation— the 
 brevity of this sketch forbids minuter details. Jt is enough 
 
 S 000 ' IT ''■'' '''T''' "^^ ^^-'- destroyed abo'ut 
 1,000,000, and emigration has removed the remainder- and 
 
 et any one nnagine, if he can. the scenes of woe embraced 
 in these fearful figures 1 During the horrors of 1847 our 
 liT.IT ^'''^"^^^'•"^^'^ ^"'? « g^^ve-yard and a lazar h^use 
 h was quite common to see the people staggering like drunken 
 men along the roads from the utter exhaustion of nature, the'r 
 faces and legs being swollen with hunger j and pages mW t 
 be filled with the bare record of cases the most aff^ctinT of 
 starvation pestdence, and death. Let us just p,-esent the 
 reader with an instance or two. At Killalli, the famished 
 creatures used to crowd round the house of the Rev Mr 
 
 -■^^-" 
 
h contained 
 rl supported 
 population. 
 , that near 
 vny — there 
 r08 indivi. 
 ngs which 
 red, invol- 
 in a few 
 on as ra- 
 ese details 
 
 NTY THOU- 
 
 =" pulse of 
 d the pea- 
 , the poor 
 no douht 
 lidst their 
 lis smiled 
 ;offin too ; 
 the inno- 
 hey often 
 ri humhle 
 prayer to 
 
 lion — the 
 1 enough 
 ed about 
 ler; and 
 mbraced 
 347, our 
 ir-house. 
 drunken 
 re, their 
 's might 
 ;tir)g, of 
 sent the 
 iimishcd 
 Gv. Mr. 
 
 THE FAMINE. g 
 
 mSutar;^fjd\t:n'^eS:i^ ""'. "^" T^ '^^^'^'^ -^ 
 once covered a bra „v arm ""'^"T"' '"^'^ "'^' ■'^'*'" ^^'"'^h 
 led, and dou le hrou k1 M '. ' "°'' i'""^ '^'««« »'"! ^rink- 
 of their om cttion f One. ' '" "''t'' '" ^''^'' «''« ^^'^'"^ 
 bo.l by tlTs de of "he?,! 7^? ''T ^«""d «"-««'^'hed on the 
 
 given 'birt'h t"t pi Tv.t^ Su "' ,?"' ^'^^ '^^'"" ^"'^ 
 to find whole fnmilfpJT I • I • ^^ '^^^ ""' uncommon 
 were case are ^whcStt r" '^T r^'^^^ ^"g^ther. Nor 
 ranged before exnitW I H '"''^'^ T"'"''^^« became de. 
 nwAil of a 1 the occ ?/n '" ?"' '"'^^' '"«'""'^^' »he most 
 found to h V '.. r^ce'^tl^^^^ "^^"'"^V" •'^"^' ^«« 
 
 J'or dead infant 'Or ^^7' •''"'"'"" '"''"'^'' ''^^^ '^'d on 
 
 daily the ."c'rh^art'^r dr'sZr ^T^e R^^'^^'f ^^^'"'^'"^^ 
 gan one day observed a mnn nn 7. • -f ''^.^'^^' ^^'' B'-anni- 
 field. He apn reherf I? , • '",'''^'' ^'-^''"8 '" ^ ^'"l^l^le 
 They told him thev hit r 'Tl?'^ '"'"^^ they%vere doi.g. 
 
 fonn^ht su;;^;i:c[o^cif.b;yi^;-^n7iu:; ^s rt'?, ^ 
 
 they hid that d^y beeL om "om7 "^'^' ^'''^'' ' ^"^ '^"^^ 
 of some wild rools of whlh /h u"''^ ,"^°'"'"^ ^" n"^«t 
 
 fruits of their nTr'aeter I t '^^^ f^h'imed a handful as the 
 
 «nd, utterinTson kiidl o r'l ^ "' ^'"?"u'°"" ^'''^ "^°^^^' 
 This relief coS. s' "" -- ' 'n ''""^f^ '^''" '^° «''iH'""gs 
 ed as he was by sorrovv nr/ ' ^ '" '''' P^""" "^^"' '''^^^^' 
 him, and he sobbXnd wel "^r""' ^""'P'^'^^y unmanned 
 his wife, stillTe's able tn n^V", '^ •^''"•^'er's face ; while 
 husband in her arms Lnl""' ^% ^"^^'"?«' ^'^^Ped her 
 won't die yet'" Annin'"^""''^^-^^^'^'-- «"•• children 
 many scenes n,ore fral^mi u''" ^'^ """/'^ ^''"P''^^- ^^ow 
 ful calamity, wh ch rS chro ier'h '""'^'^ ^"'''"^ ^^«^ ^''^"d. 
 existence the woWd never heS "?'"" '■"°''^^^^' °^^''o«« 
 sympathy were Xrl .? T ?' ^""^ °^^'' ^^'hieh no tears of 
 Wor'mus^ we7b 4 ll at't c'on'''^^' '^ some fellow-sufferers I 
 
 of the potato ever since 1847 ''^"''-'' ""• P'"'"' ''"""''" 
 fering an annual 7Zll 'aT^^ "'''''''^^^ '^^^« heen suf. 
 equalled Egypt's sevrvea"rsnf^7' "ow, therefore, almost 
 seven of plenty. ^ ' °^ ''^^"'^ ^^^^hout its previous 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 EMIGlUTION. 
 
 FoK „a„y year, a large porUon of Ireland's shipping .r.de 
 
(! M! 
 
 i 
 
 ** THE MISERIES. 
 
 hns boon mrro rmigration. And its nfrfjrrpnfo nmnnnt cnn 
 e bf..st sr,n fv6m tl.o fact that, nc-eordi,,;, to n late (stin.a.o. 
 
 tluTo arr ,n Amonca M,(((),»,()0() of native Irish, and 4,o0(»,()()0 
 
 nu.re of In. , .Icscont. In oii.rr words, An.rrica now con- 
 ".nsonnha.itants of Irish blood, 1,()()0,()()() more than doos 
 
 Irohind iisol ! Lvcn previous to the famine of Hi?, the 
 
 ?""". Jlww! '''' "^' ^"''^'•'""« ''"^1 in six years steadily rise,, 
 from 40,000 to f.5,()()0 : and since that time it has increased 
 so prod.o.ously, tbnl the Colonial Land and ICmigralion Com- 
 niissioners fjive the number en.igratir).; i„ 1851 at "JTO.OOO. 
 1 lie dady arrivals of emigrants at the port of New York 
 
 are H T^tP""'" l'"* '" '"f'^'' ""^' "'^ "•-- «'"' Kroat mass 
 are ln.h. ihus, after flowing westward for half n century 
 
 the stream of emigration, so far from diminishing, has swollen 
 
 into a mighty flood, and the world now gazes on a phenome. 
 
 non which can only be likened to the migrations of the Gauls 
 
 or the lluns, or other wandering tribes of yore. Multitu.les 
 
 are flying from their once loved homesteads, as though Ire- 
 
 iand were the scene of some physical as well as social con- 
 
 vnlsion, to a land which comprises all they can henceforth 
 
 call a country ; deeming even its wild forests an asylum from 
 
 their woes. _ 1 hey daily hear of the untimely end of thou. 
 
 sands of their fellow-emigrants by shipwreck on the passnrre. 
 
 or hardships on their arrival ; but so far is every other feelin.; 
 
 overborne by the one desire to escape, that the most timid 
 
 brave the deep and the most infirm encounter the hardships. 
 
 Ut the crowds that thus hurry along in this general " exodus " 
 
 scarce one returns, save the fvw who come back from ill health 
 
 or indolence, nul/a vestigia retrorsum ; so that a large portion 
 
 of the country's business arises from emigration. From it 
 
 our railways are reaping a transient and ruinous harvest— 
 
 the numbers continually pouring along the Great Southern 
 
 and Western alone are surprising. And at sea-coast villages, 
 
 Where vessels were never known to touch Ix^fore, ships now 
 
 regularly call for their human cargoes. Churches and dm. 
 
 pels are fast being emptied. The country begins to feel the 
 
 tearful dram, and fainls from excessive depletion ; yet on kols 
 
 the increasing tide, an(j on it promises to go. In many cases 
 
 ine wall of the emigrants who crowd our ports is not so 
 
 Jieart-rending as that of their friends whom poverty compels 
 
 to remain behind ; and had the people but the means of get 
 
 Ung away, whole districts would rise and take their departure 
 
 Jbventhe warmest advocates of the cleararce-svstem begin to 
 
 leel alarmed, instead of a competition for land, as formerly, 
 
nmniint cnn 
 itp ( stinmtp, 
 fl 4,r)(M),0()0 
 II now con. 
 ^ tliiin (Iocs 
 ' HIT, the 
 ■lulily risoii 
 » iricrrnscd 
 'ittion Coin- 
 if yTD.OOO. 
 New York 
 groat muss 
 a century, 
 las swollen 
 I plirnome. 
 I'tlio Giuils 
 Multitudes 
 bough Ire- 
 social con. 
 henceforth 
 ylum from 
 d of thou. 
 
 passage, 
 ler feeling 
 Dost timid 
 lardships. 
 
 ' exodus," 
 
 1 ill health 
 50 portion 
 
 From it 
 harvest — 
 Southern 
 t villages, 
 hips now 
 and cha. 
 
 feel the 
 •t on goes 
 my cases 
 is not so 
 
 compels 
 IS of get- 
 ^'parture. 
 
 begin to 
 armerly, 
 
 tVro hnn at lenjrfh commenced n competition for tenants- 
 and some are seriously speaking of the necessity fon"riV 
 niontary interference with the e7„i..rant to s,m ,he , ' 
 fron, complete depopulation-it bein<ra\ ;,,,7 ' ' '^ ^J'""^ 
 <^"ough calculation,' that at the sa.ne L " j, J^.^of -f 
 ^gration, a very fo. years indeed would leav^irlXlonTly 
 
 «.ghed for as a place of refuge. Nor do wo refer so ni Lh « 
 
 he angu.sh endured hy our warm-hearted co.m ^mor w u n 
 
 wLT '■""' !''^"'.""'"'^"^' '"" y-t beloved home ead " 
 
 VVh.n ,he poor exilee. every p|,.„.ure pns,. ^ ' 
 Hunjr round the bowers, nn.l fon.lly looked their last • 
 And ahuddenn? still to fnce the dlLnt deep ' 
 
 Returned and wept, and still relurned to weep" 
 
 Hut we refer not now to these calamities. ^' 
 
 Q- -ne people wnohavc been ieuviu^r^our enterprising 
 
THB MISBRIM. 
 
 tTJ^''ltTr7~''^"''' not content to live on ,Iry poTa. 
 £L wh ' K T'""'^ -n.w.sof the country we ha.Xen 
 •o^ing, who, bcsulos coniii uting thoir lahor and skill tf> 
 
 lurn X.IU to X^IOOO. jjy tho (Ji parturc of this .-lii^y it 
 .» reckon,..! that sinco 1845 the country^ has lo.t in cash done 
 been IH.'l a nn lion steriin.. Tin./ Irelnnd has o t : 
 
 01 wi.icii the purer purtion at thf> ton hu.s been reD,^,n,lllv 
 
 un 0(1. Such has bi-en the draining process of Irish eirnVni 
 on on w uch Britain has looked with indiirer nee t 1 r^^^ 
 U^c best of ho people nre «one to rear cities honeu.h'a forS 
 btmner, and all that rc.nains for Ej.fjland's proud fla- to h^v^ 
 over, IS tlie puwp-rized and prostrated re«umnt" ° ^ 
 
 I\or are the political bearings of the case to be whollv dia 
 regarded t were idle to deny that America now 1 oldrthat 
 
 otS to n" '"""%f T' ''^ ''"• — ^^y-n which En^larra 
 ST..h^r '^ Hearken u, thoir conversation, and A me! 
 nou n, be theme of tlieir eulogies^ while England s spoken of 
 
 i\ever was th s fact more clearly proved than during thfv 
 American Ambassador's late visit to Ireland VVhe^a a 
 recent festival in Lin,eriok, the health of our beloved Queen 
 w^s received wkh hisses by some of the party^^the Sa 
 everywhere gave Mr. Abbt Lawrence a royal r^^ept'on and 
 flocked around him as though he had been a vi^ tam Cn 
 some better world. In truth^the hearts of the peoTl ^w 
 m America. Enter almost any dwelling, and the creat aim 
 of the very servants is to save what wilf -take th >m o ,t of 
 th.s country" to the land of promise. Converse wutn?r 
 struggling farmers, and the last hope of many i^ ,S,».' 
 sons, who have gone before, may be spared to senu lor ti ein 
 selves and their families, and enable them to exchanVe th« 
 condmon of British subjects for that of American citizens 
 Fd ow that youth to those distam shores, and you find him 
 -.tamed am.d then- droughts and winter snows L the hop^ 
 c. o. v..cwM,g h.s reveiTd parent from hunger and " opZ! 
 ;:,\, '""'-^ ^-^comuig hun ta that "land ofliberty'' and 
 
H dry po(0' 
 ' liiivt' lieoft 
 1(1 .skill to 
 with tlumi 
 lis ciuss it 
 cash aiuiio 
 
 for years, 
 a, whence 
 
 while the 
 Lum of the 
 une liquid 
 
 rf'peiitedly 
 it'nfjfth to 
 
 h t'lnigra- 
 
 ) till nuw 
 a foreign 
 
 g to wave 
 
 holly dia- 
 (lolds that 
 England 
 md A me. 
 spoken of 
 scontent. 
 uring the 
 hi.'e at a 
 d Queen 
 le people 
 •lion, and 
 int from 
 are now 
 reat aim 
 I) ont of 
 viib oir 
 "■'il t';>->ii- 
 if theifl. 
 nge the 
 citizens, 
 ind him 
 le hope 
 ' oppres- 
 y" and 
 
 INCHEASINO PROSTRATIO.N. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 INCREASING PROSTRATION. 
 
 Such is the history of the millions we have lost— let us 
 now glance at the state of the millions who remain. It would 
 bo «ome con«,lation for the loss of the f.^nner, if, as many 
 hoped. It would h.n'e condue.d to the good of Iho hu J 
 According u, onv over.popu/ation theorist., Ireland was liko 
 some over-crowded ship; and what was chiefly necessary to 
 Have her from sinkmg, was simply to lighten her of her 
 human cargo. Wei , this has lx..en done, and to their hearts' 
 content— has it enabled her to Weather the tempest ? 
 
 Look to our upper classes, and how many of those who 
 were embarrassed in 1846 are absolute bankrupts now f 
 rhe.r property has so fast been passing through the Eneum. 
 beredbsatos' Court that 2000 petitions have already been 
 presented of which 1600 have been flatted ; and yet it is the 
 opinion of niany that the labors of that court are only com! 
 nencing. ^ou now p„s« by numbers of decaying mansions 
 v^hich were^once the homes of splendid hospitality; you s^e 
 
 tZrrf ""'''' '^r'^"'." "^^P''^'^^'^'^' ^"d 'heir variou-s monu. 
 ments of elegance fast going to ruin. And you find the only 
 tenant of their lonely halls to be. perhaps some Chance y 
 keeper, or els, some old caretaker of the family, who entef^ 
 a.ns you with stories of its ancient "grandeur." Some of 
 
 emblem ;;f^"^' ''"'' .^'"" 'T'"^ ""° poor-houses-sad 
 emblem of our country's state !-and those who were onco 
 their lords are now penniless exiles in distant lands, or earn- 
 ing a pittance in some department of the public service. The 
 sons of several of our gentry have been glad to enter the con. 
 
 private soldi, rs. A baronet is this moment a common 
 turnkey ma prison, and at least one gentleman of high faZy 
 has been disc-overed in a poorhouse\r There is ^.metS 
 peculiarly aflecting in these facts. By a merciful arrange? 
 ment of Providence, those who have been cradled in ha?d. 
 ships are for that very reason best fitted to endure them ; but 
 U IS pitiful to think -f hundreds in actual want wh^ were 
 reared as tenderly as any of our readers, and whose in fan! 
 locks the rude winds of heaven were scarce ever permitted to 
 visit. We have had applications from the daughters of gen! 
 -s«-_, J.. .v.ti:= cuuugii lo make uie heart bleed, 
 
,./#^ 
 
 10 
 
 THE MISERIES. 
 
 begging to be made tcachcrsof our industrial schools on £20 
 a-year. One of our missionaries was sometime since sent 
 for to visit a rfducod lady who was reported to be dying. He 
 found her in n wrcfcoed dwelling, and sinking mainly from 
 sheer privation ; and the only relics of former years lie could 
 see, were a riding habit and a silver-mounted' whip, which 
 belonged to a beloved daughter ! And the most affecting fea- 
 ture of the case is, the shifts to which these persons frequently 
 resort in order to conceal their distress. In one case, the 
 author accidently discovered the starving condition of a gen- 
 tleman with a large family, who had held a high situation in 
 the Customs; and having at length so far gained his confi- 
 dence as to induce him to make known his wants, he learned 
 amongst other things that the only covering which the gentle- 
 man and his wife had over them at night Was an old green 
 baize cloth to which he pointed on the table before him ! 
 
 Look now for an instant to our viiddle class — or rather to 
 that cliiss which in Ireland comes nearest to what is meant by 
 this term, and embraces not only our merchants, shopkeepers, 
 and higher agriculturists, but our traders, farmers, and pii- 
 vate householders, of respectable character, but limited means. 
 There is scarcely any better index of the condition of this 
 class, as well indeed as of all who stand between it and our 
 humblest peasantry, than the state of our savings' banks. 
 Now, in 1845 the number of depositors in the savings' banks 
 of Ireland was 96,422 ; and the amount deposited, £2,921,591; 
 whereas in the year 1850 the number of depositors had ful- 
 len to 47,9>-7, and the amount deposited to £1,291,798 ! 
 
 Another most important indication of a country's prosperity 
 or decline, is the amount of its imports and exports. Now, in 
 1845, when we had a population of 8,500,000, our exports in 
 grain alone were worth £4,500,000 sterling; yet, in 1850, 
 with only 6,600,000 of a population to feed, the value of our 
 corn exports was but £1,500,000 sterling ; — in other words, 
 this principal source of our wealth had, in the above brief 
 period, fallen away two thirds ! Nor has this decline been 
 confined to our grain trade. Our exports in cows and pigs 
 amounted in 1846, to above £4,500,000 sterling; while, Tn 
 1850, they had fallen away to £2,200,000, or less than one 
 half. And when it is recollected that seven tenths of Ireland's 
 wealth is agricultural, these figures but too plainly demon- 
 Btrate the rapidity of her decline. 
 If next we look to the private circumstances of the farmera, 
 
INCREASING PROSTHATtON. 
 
 We know that their live stock 
 
 11 
 
 is one of the most i 
 
 « en)s, and sources, too, of their wealth, E 
 that much of the value of tli«ir farms dopcnd; 
 to stock them well. Now, in 1841 . tU. L... 
 
 mportant 
 ivery one knows 
 Is on their ability 
 
 -„ „ , , , ,: , '"'"> 'n 1841, the average of live stork 
 
 on each hddmg under fifteen acres, was £9? and the total 
 value on aU the farms of this .xtenMn Ireland was n round 
 numbers £10,500,000 sterling ; while in 185 , he vera"e 
 value of livestock on eachhad fallen to £(i lOs showina i£! 
 njore than onethird of this soun^e of our na ion w3 has 
 also disappeared. And it has been truly affSJ to Irk 
 
 of a^how f hi r ^^ ^°'-«P',"g statistics indicate ; to see, first 
 from ;J ^^ ?!''"7 ' ''"'^ «'^^''""g« ^•erf' gradually d awn 
 from the savings' bank till all was gone~then how h^s catTu 
 were sold, one by one, till frequently the last cow disLare^^^^ 
 tl on ho«, h.s household furniture itself went, piece^by J ece 
 
 closed bvrb^"'""'"'"'"'''' ''•"' ^'"'"""^ ^'^"Sfe^'^' ''^' fi"«"y 
 
 fathel hid dwerfnr ""'" ^'""^ "P,'""^ *'^'-^°" ^hich h.^ 
 ^InlLfi dwel for generations, and mournfully bending his 
 steps to the poorhouse or the sea-port. The last five years 
 
 otVe'r satr '"3 "r^'^'^' '"^ ^' « ""-^^^ of auct'nrand 
 To buv tit' " J'^'" f '"'"y ^^""^ «^»'"g' «"d«o few able 
 to buy, the sacrifices often made at these were, of course 
 
 IZ7T ^u°' ^'''''.'^' pawnbroker, been less busirem: 
 ployed than the auctioneers. We have known even the^r 
 yards and outhouses to be filled with articles from the rsu 
 
 fered from the very excess of their stores, so many have been 
 
 pawning and so few purchasing ! ^ " 
 
 Of course, there are many exceptions to this General 
 
 ?he SoHtv 'th "r"t '''' "PP-"'^--- We sfeak ^ 
 tlie majority, though we fear it is a large majority • for if sd 
 
 ZZTl '^^fT ^PP^-^"- •" ^''-^ ^anks'of Tri'sh so e.y 
 Tnd whose r'^r'^tf '••'"" I^P ^" «PP^aranceisso prover^ 
 and whose dread of being thought poor is so great that thev 
 
 c in" ot tT 'fr T'' ^''«" '^' '^^'^ ^- ' I'known :^ 
 we wouMS-r ' t'^^t'^-^'-cV''^ admitted ^^^ind the scenes, 
 tr;n7us,ffv hT',^" amount of privation which would more 
 man justify the picture we have drawn. 
 
 If, then such is the condition even of our gentry and yeo. 
 manry, what can we expect amongst those Wr LT I'r^ 
 ^m^h our vast armies of paupers are chiefly "re"cruited'7 ' 
 
19 
 
 THE MISEEIBS. 
 
 Perhaps our poor-kw statistics will form the best answer (,) 
 
 „ r!wn "'^'}' 'he progress of our pauperism, with all 
 
 TJT. ^'^Pend.tare, for 11 short years. From it he will 
 find that, whereas in 1841, the numbers relieved were 31,000, 
 and the cost of relief was £110,000 ; in 1849, the numbers 
 
 nl/l^'^S'nnnn"''/^"" ^^'^'^^^^' ""^ '^e cost of relief, 
 near £2,200,000 ;~ that is to say, for eight years the 
 scale contmues to asceftd till the number of paupers 
 
 fw'.nt'vf u"f I '^^y^°J'^ «"d tf>e cost of relieving them 
 twentyfold! Indeed, m 1848, the number receiving relief 
 mc udmg out-door paupers, exceeded 2,000,000, or a iburth. 
 of the population : and if the h,st two years exhibit a dimin! 
 uton, we fear this is to be ascribed to something else than 
 returning prosperity. A depopulation of 2,500,000 should 
 alone go far to explain the phenomenon ; while the country 
 IS so fast sinking beneath a load of poor-rates, that in severa! 
 poorhouses It is found impossible to accommodate the paupers 
 of the district ; and those who find admittance, in many cLes 
 pensh in such numbers from their miserable maintenance, 
 that they begin to shun the poorhouse as a sepulchre. In two 
 houses alone, those of Ennistymon and Kilrush, there died 
 Z.JTa ^"^'"gj^^^ch, 1851. 3,028 paupers, being at the 
 rate of 4 deaths a day m the one house, and 4^ in the other f 
 1 he state of our poorhouses, therefore, is no certain criterion 
 ot Ahe state of our pauperism. Some of our Unions are 
 insolvent, and many are in debt ; while the poor-rate is so 
 fast hastening the general decay, that a number of the rate- 
 payers of one y^ear are uniformly found among the paupers 
 of the next. The poorhouses built only 12 years ago, with 
 ample accommodation fbr the estimated wants of the time, 
 
 Year. Expenditure, Panpera, 
 
 • ;?!' X110^78 31,108 
 
 ^2 281,233 87,604 
 
 Jgf^ 244.374 87,P98 
 
 ]lii 271,334 105,358 
 
 ]lj^ 3'fi.025 114505 
 
 \lj^ 435,001 243.933 
 
 ]lil 803,686 417,139 
 
 So 1.835,634 610,463 
 
 ]lf^ 2,177.651 932.i!84 
 
 il^? 1,4.30.108 805,702 
 
 ^851 1,110,892 768.570 
 
 TaoM's Statittict, 1852, p. 203. 
 
5st answer (() 
 he subjoincfl 
 'ism, wiih all 
 3m it he will 
 were 31,000, 
 'he numbers 
 ost of relief, 
 t years the 
 of pauper« 
 ieving them 
 eiving relief 
 or a fourth, 
 ibit a diniin. 
 g else than 
 ,000 should 
 the country- 
 It in scTeral 
 the paupers 
 many cases 
 laintenance, 
 ire. In two 
 I, there died 
 being at the 
 1 the other f 
 »in criterion 
 Unions aro 
 r-rate is so 
 of the rate, 
 he paupers 
 8 ago, with 
 3f the time, 
 
 1 
 
 S2, p. 203. 
 
 INCREASING PROSTRATION. jg 
 
 nJrJ." many places been found so inadequate as to have 
 added to them three and four auxiUary workhouses A lan^e 
 portion of the town of Millstreot is at present thus occupfd 
 by paupers J yet our poorhouse accommodation is su I so 
 
 ttp^'TS^'rT ^''''^' ^^---going table scarce indicate 
 three.fourths of the existing pauperism of the country 
 
 sixn. nf^th". ^^'""? ^"^"""' '^^ P'^^P'^"^'^. embracing near one 
 Sixth of the population, is yet but too easily accounted for bv 
 a glance at the state of the peasantry WImIp ihl o ^ 
 wages of the English laborer' is aS'l.. 6rf per dav E 
 of the Insh aborer is about M. ; it occasionally isesfo lOd 
 and 1*. ; It IS often as low as 3d. and 4d ■ nnlintLJi 
 seasons, numbers are content to work t^ H ei'r'^d We 
 have seen that, for weeks together, they a e nempioved ' 
 and ,n the west particularly th'e labor ma^rket is soTvfetched' 
 that you will see them brinLnn<r ass's load., nfuZ a I- 
 chick weed for several miles'into t^n inf se 1 ng them' f^ 
 id and a messenger will gladly travel 10 or ll mn^s fo 
 ed. Their food ,s of the poorest description. Before the 
 famine, U consisted chiefly of potatoes, with sometfn^es mi k 
 
 mussels or hmpets, or whatever elte they can find Ynn 
 
 on this once hardy race The rhUArl ""^'^"^^"'y change 
 wasted and sallow^ thrp;reltt\atf;^firhed 1^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 IS much more frequent, and longevity is daily becomh^r, iTer 
 There are very few cabins which have not, wS the asi 
 five years, been scenes of sickness or death • and vn, \ 
 on y to enter and inquire for some paren ^r child m f"'" 
 pointed out awasted'patientonasickTd o7the nei°lC 
 
 or begging along the roads; and we7earit is thi^oZfd 
 
14 
 
 THE Miseries. 
 
 occurrence, his aho nslprlpi ?^ ?-°"'°"' f^ °^ ^'•^^^^^t 
 itself is increas ^.'^Tna w^ d' Uk U^T' '^''''^'}V^---y 
 a despprate stru^de to live Fv'n ' ^"'^"'"^ ^"'^ ""^"y 
 while bejraarinc^fhecounlr; J «"«• enormous poor-rates, 
 the a.tornative^o;'^: ^oorlSZuse'ra "^a4" t I'SsT' 
 
 dvinc in their ovnr In K ^^''"f ^^ " ^°''^'> 'and or 
 
 in which Britain has been Hsin. to ^"/K'^^ ««•"« PeHod 
 greatness. Ireland, by her sij" ^^Vr^^' &^' P'""«^'« ^f 
 has been sinking to this deeo defrr.H^?!^ the same sceptre, 
 is^he n.ist.ss a^nd the oSt^S^^^ T^ZJ^ Z 
 
 n"r„s Vn'lthaTof :AlrTZ\:f"A ''' ''T' ^^ "^^ 
 their oommiaeralion I„ Vll .. '^ ■ "^ "'.""""ending at best 
 
 has been ZTr".^ '^^ f^nd'ToL'," „7'i';?j'i ^"'""^ 
 land of unporailekd Dro,neriivIl i , ^'""^ '"'" » 
 
 utterly wreiched as to flfrrlr. , 1^ "f'" ''ave gro>v„ «, 
 to ao/ept "f l'e7m™:"?„^;,^;2"„=3''r/» "' '» "h" ^'T' 
 
 L. not o„„ , jr s„a. ti:^;r s' 'air s 
 
 t\ 
 
SINGtXLAR EXCEPTIOIt. 
 
 )er far morw 
 late been 
 
 show itself 
 ptom of an 
 not only is 
 sing to be 
 abe. Yet, 
 irriages in 
 il, and the 
 ; while in 
 !r and off- 
 of nature 
 f frequent 
 5ts lunacy 
 ith many 
 100 r- rates, 
 • paupers 
 iths from 
 even re- 
 I land or 
 prisoners 
 order to 
 
 all this 
 neral ad- 
 and that 
 ' swiftest 
 le period 
 made of 
 sceptre, 
 ) the one 
 rid ; the 
 t of the 
 ? at best 
 America 
 IS into a 
 rown so 
 isylum, 
 fter be- 
 
 for the 
 case is, 
 ince to 
 
 15 
 
 L 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 every form of treatment, but it seems rather to have grown 
 worse under each successive remedy, and now apnearslikelv 
 to be arrested by nothing but dissolution. Each new measure 
 has only blasted our hopes— each fresh loan has but increased 
 our burdens— each remedial experiment has miserably failed 
 and often proved a curse rather than a cure;— until now 
 our social maladies have reached such a height, that unless 
 in some way arrested by God's gracious providence, in a few 
 more years our country's funeral dirge must inevitably be 
 heard. ^ 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 SINGULAR EXCEPTION. 
 
 To this general scene of wretchedness we must notice a 
 partial, yet remarkable exception. The province of Ulster 
 has long presented so strange a contrast to the rest of Ireland 
 ns to have elicited the surprise even of continental tourists.' 
 1 hough warmed by the same sun, and watered by the same 
 skies, this one province has prospered while the rest have 
 declined ; and you have only to cross the boundary line 
 which divides them, to find a comparative desert on the one 
 side anJ a garden on the other. 
 
 If you look to Ulster's condition prior to the famine, you 
 find It has been the home of comfort and industry, and the 
 headquarters of our commerce and manufactures. Of the 
 22,591 persons employed in our factories in l-i46, nearly four 
 fifths belonged to our northern province; the proportions 
 being— Ulster, 17,304; Leinster, 3,732; Munster, 1,155 • 
 and in Connaught not a single one. To give one example of 
 the relative progress of our northern and southern fownsf In 
 1786 Belfast was an unimportant place with a wretched har 
 bor, and the revenue of its port was but jei,.500,000 sterlirfrr] 
 In 1838 It contained .50 factory steam-engines; in 1841, i'ts 
 mills for spinning yarn alone amounted to 25, one of the p'rin 
 cipal employing 800 hands; in 1846, the Tidal Harbor Com." 
 missioners pronounced it "the first town in Ireland for enter 
 prise and commercial prosperity ;" and in 1850, its port reve' 
 mies Imd increased to £29,000,000. On the other hand 
 Kilkenny was an important city when Belfiist was a village- it 
 once had several fuctories, 11 water-wheels, and such a car- 
 pet manufactory that Kidderminster petitioned for repeal ot 
 
16 
 
 TftB MrSHRlES. 
 
 11 water-wheels one wusZw n ^ r .1 ^^ ^^'^^' ''^"^ ""^^^^ 
 the .aCinery. but ^oTr:^^; t^^^^i^'^.P^T ^^ ^^^^^^ 
 
 ho!rof wEfch IZt'L'"'"' f ';r '"'^'"^' ^hosescenesof 
 known in the nonh of Iro "T '" ^' '°'^^'^ "'^'•^ «««'-ceIy 
 perish the^e we e „: i e 'o/c'or^ T^ °f 'r'^''^^ "'^° ^'"^ 
 poured into Ulster iHuS of £lr?ri«r'^ ^^•"«^«'" ^^''° 
 sent to Ireland at tha?rin,n , ?^-^i^^00,000 of relief 
 
 scarce ^l^OOO,^^^^^^^^^:^^^^^: ^'^^T' 
 
 tax for the same end! Final v if v"'V'";'^ '^' ""^'^-'""^'^ 
 since 1847, you find ,lmt'' '^^^^ou Jook to its condition 
 
 tmted Mun^efa^Slt ^rCveT'lrer'"' }"''' T^' 
 mitigated severity VVhi!^^ ll ? [ ' "P°" ^' ^^'^^ but 
 
 inhabitants. Mun^I^r aim' t ta th^lnd c' °" ^'^ °'' ^ 
 one th rd, Ulster has not lnJ» 7 r Co""a"ght nearly 
 
 which in'l841 con , ind bo^e T^Om inJ^l.^'^P"^'' ?^'^-^ 
 in 1851 to near 10r» nm I ■ ' '"''abitants, had risen 
 24,000 ! In fac the n^nMl'r'"^ an „crease of upwards of 
 greater than it w tfj e' lo'Li e^'^'" " now';elatively 
 above one fourth, and r 1851 Tnr'°T'?^y\^*'*l °f 
 inhabitants. Of the rrrvnr., . V °"^ ^'"'■'^ o^ Ireland's 
 famine, the enUre of tTeco 1^ 0^'""' ^de during the 
 this Ulster owes little more "S'-Znn"^^^ £4,500,000: of 
 debt to near one third of thnnnW^'"^"'T°''''"®^'g^t^' o^'he 
 half so great a, that of the otS^i?""' ^'' ^'^"P^"^'" '« "^^ 
 the entif; Poor-rates of the conn rvr'"''V "1 P'-oponion of ' 
 In a wordrvou find hlf nT'^'^ ^.^'"g a'^o about an eighth. 
 
 ordinary influence felbvM^n 7' a^^ '"^"^^ ^° ^^^''y 
 k»own the rr^serls which at' "'^ ^°","^«'ght. has scarce 
 
 notoriety. So soTn asvl Z ^.T" ''"'" ^"«'» f^^^-^"! 
 
 aspectofthecoumry chaCs All ' P?^'"^^' ^'^^ «"tire 
 of social health whr-h ;« «. ^ ?i" ^'' "'"""^ assumes that air 
 
 to describe Vout: 0^51^7^'^^ ^'' '' '^'^^^^'^ '""y 
 and swarming bejraar! rn n n""^ '"S'^" "^'''"^y cabins 
 
 and you en ef a te?ri orv of ^^^^'- ''"'' deserted farms; 
 studded S comSble tT^"'''T[y '''^ «"'tivation 
 you cannot but Teel haf S T ""'' '^"^'^ ^°^"«- And 
 least fifty years ahead of hZ 7 ""''''' ^''"'^^' Ulster is at 
 
 element/o^ nation Tprogrelf't^'d iH'"''' '" ,'" ^^^ ^^"^ 
 I'lui.rebs, and in Us general aspect, so 
 
the principal 
 Js, that of the 
 )se of driving 
 
 lose scenes of 
 ere scarcely 
 lose who did 
 •einster who 
 ,000 of relief 
 'ate charity, 
 Ulster; while 
 3r the relief 
 e rate-in-aid 
 ts condition 
 
 1 have pros. 
 It with but 
 
 2 fifth of its 
 ught nearly 
 tal, Belfast, 
 I, had risen 
 upwards of 
 V relatively 
 in 1841 of 
 f Ireland's 
 during the 
 90,000: of 
 ghth of the 
 rism is not 
 >portion of ' 
 
 an eighth, 
 to every 
 has scarce 
 ch fearful 
 the entire 
 Bs that air 
 icult fully 
 hy cabins 
 3d farms; 
 iltivation, 
 ns. And 
 ster is at 
 I the true 
 spect, so 
 
 SINGULAR EXCEPTION. yj 
 
 out Ihe " i™.;! *.. iL. ■"" ' ™.<=<'<'»^'ve wriler ha» found 
 
 lible specific velZS ."""'"^'l', ""^' °^ ^""--^^ ^^'^ '""^'al- 
 
 blinder quaXrv ""/./'f'''''"'?"'^' "f" Patient the victim of 
 seems tC? th'e' w To : ent'alf L?r ^■- '^ '"'r^ 
 
 which, if wi^ly",;,,;"'^'^''"'-'^ ^'''^ «'a«tedon Ireland 
 
 achiev'ed he salva^ ^ I n f , Z "7' i"^^'^'" ^"^'' '"^^'« 
 medicinal has proved /^ll. "^ "'^ ''^''^ ^^« •"^"«"' «3 
 
 by thd e.peZZlft^^^^^^^^^^ and, untaught 
 
 Philanthro^-sts and stat;:m'e:\r o^hisTrv t'l-T"'"^'- "^ 
 over our expiring country,_pornkxed abonfth!/ ! ^""^ 
 because ignorantV the grand diXse! "' ^^^e treatment, 
 
 HOW Jong and anxiously have wp Irtntnr] r^» 
 arise and dispel this i/rnnrmr.»r.. r ^°* ^"'"^ °"« *» 
 
 trace out the cause c^f 1/; ^P ^ ^^'-'^^^ ''"" ^^'' ^^^"''l 
 
 present, diffidence should 
 
 yield to higher feelings, and the 
 
18 
 
 THE MISERIES. 
 
 dealh wa. a. least ha..ed by her own' ehildrenTild, J 
 
 ^.roes f,„,n which our f.e.s anSLfe are ierived""Bu: 
 Ihe reader may rely on Iheir correctness. ' 
 
but render Ins 
 
 of tho follow. 
 he may hold, 
 countrymen's 
 ' can yield to 
 ■sorrows; who 
 good ; whoso 
 'or her future 
 least for one 
 high ground 
 heir common 
 ne of reason, 
 eadiiest foes. 
 H rent's dying 
 in to tell/that 
 countrymen, 
 dissensions ; 
 9 around us 
 country, we 
 bre that her 
 lands ? 
 
 ave found it 
 e numerous 
 rived. But 
 
 PART II. 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 The alleged causes of Ireland's miseries may all be classed 
 under the six following heads. Some have ascribed them to 
 something in her physical state ; some, to her pohUcal condi- 
 tion ; others, to her social; others still, to her vtoral ; while a 
 lifih class has attributed them to her religious character : and 
 a sixth has ascribed them, in part, to each of these. Let us 
 briefly inquire how far each theory is accordant with truth 
 
 CHAPTER I, 
 
 THE PHYSICAL. 
 
 This branch of our subject divides itself into the Peovh 
 and the Land of their Birth. Does the cauf e, then, rest with 
 Ireland or the Insh ? Is the ground cursed with sterility or 
 he air with pestilence ? Is the climate bleak, or the coast 
 ^hospitable ? Is the island a Sahara or a Campagna di Roma ? 
 Or IS the now fashionable theory the correct ono, that the race 
 IS hopelessly degenerate and spent— xhnt, with them, " mis 
 fortune is another name for misconduct"~aKd that the Irish 
 man, wherever he goes, is pursued by the curse of Cain or 
 
 Cainaan, and for similar reasons ? 
 
 The Country.— Is the cause, or any part of it, found in 
 
 the couiary? The question scarce deserves an answer 
 
 Ireland is as much celebrated for beauty as misfortune. 
 
 Volumes have been written on its scenery and resources. 
 
 bwarms of tourists are annually lured to its shores. Poetry 
 
 oft^n extravagant, speaks but sober truth in styling it the 
 ' Lmerald Isle » And it is the unanimous verdict ?f man! 
 
 Jiuid, that in all the requisites of national greatness, the entire 
 
I 
 
 so 
 
 ALLEOKD CAPSES. 
 
 ^ualll.fll^Sijli^j;:' southern province, is perhaps un. 
 
 to fhVS.i:iitrn?vrr 'r'l 'r t--- '^ - ♦"- 
 
 750 ; nuTi Z k^^^^^^ ''^»° o- rises above 
 
 ern ami th' i i i . ,0^0^"' .l'''^' ^T' "^*« ^'^^-^ «^ ""••'»'- 
 
 tillVeduced V late .tl nT' U ""T"'" ^° P"-"^' "'«^ 
 less ki.!;i,y air^of S) n t:^ ^7 VlTT t'^"' ':'^ 
 
 Notwi.hstand nH^ vTst t al^.' oT '^''^'^^'^ •'"'•• «"'"''"^«- 
 
 ed cultivation o'f ^lU t/a^^i^roe Sd r: ' 7' "" ""'^''■ 
 as mucii provisions a«! ; IVn; r ' ^'^'»"d exports twice 
 
 .r-ere trad?™ ', ,' nn ? 'J' "^" P^P"'''^^'^^ The 
 steamers most n rt of he lo:' '''"^ '""^'"^'^ ^ ^^^^ °^ 
 
 to a table in Great Britafn on' 7 u^'" '"" ''^"'■"^ ^''^ ^"^^^ 
 produce of its soil " '"'""^ ^^^ ^^'^'^ ""^ ^nd the 
 
 ^^:' h's^im^rS'i^^'i "''' ^^'^^^ ^^--^« ^' 
 
 teem with the riches miner.h ft "'' ''''''• ^'' ^^^'^'^ 
 of nsh. It contains s^m"S'; """f ''! '^'^'''^ ^^'t^* «''oals 
 
 and such areTts en.inn^'-n r r'"' '^^'"^"''^ '" "'^ "'orld j 
 
 a tum.I in all'Sl^yT" Whir^to' f.rr^— 'X 
 mercal advantafTP« ;» i 1 ^ "^^^' «« to still higher com- 
 
 the Atlambl vTh the ^^l^ r'"^ "'^ ^^"''''^'^ highway- 
 between the o'd woid and tl °?"^'°"^ ^f ''^^ P«««'""Ay ; Ind 
 their link of cirunicaHon anH' "" ''l°"f ^ ^'^^'g"*^'' '« ^^ 
 In a word on thirw";^ cTuntTt' ^'oodT^^^^^ 
 
 ttSt'"v\tritd^^7^"■^^^^^ 
 
 land of'-paupo.s X •^.1^.^ "^ ^"t" ^/"P'^^'^ '"''"'^d of J 
 a spot which fie had o^^«, '"''^' ^'^"^ '^°" ^'^''^ ^here was 
 of the curse on "man's fi?t,^ TT'"^ ^'"""^ ^'^^ ^"" -«*ects 
 that nothing but Ze LaJ±;^^'^^''"'^''' '^ "'«« «'>''« ; and 
 hindered it from beconr/firiyr'^. '""''^ P^'^^'^'>' ''^^« 
 instead of being the?;;^^^^ r^tt^ ^"^^ ^^^^-^--^ 
 
 -th,mo^unaJ;^i^^S^i::j---^^^^ 
 
perhaps uti- 
 
 If we turn 
 more gfiiial 
 •" rises above 
 :ors of north. 
 i atmosphere 
 o pure, that 
 proverbially 
 10 south par- 
 k'es from ''le 
 look to i(io 
 th tfie nnest 
 ir sumniiis. 
 the wrelch- 
 xports twice 
 ition. The 
 ! a fleet of 
 ce sit down 
 lot find the 
 
 elements of 
 Its bowels 
 with shoals 
 he world ; 
 is scarcely 
 gher com. 
 lighway — 
 S hy ; and 
 gned to be 
 is of both, 
 ature has 
 arce help 
 stead of a 
 there was 
 nil effects 
 his; and 
 ibly have 
 e nations, 
 
 far from 
 them, in 
 M Ulster 
 
 THB PIIYSICAI,. 21 
 
 PI . " , , t'xpi'H'H'd, becomes more port) exintr tl,.,,, ,.,.,.- 
 rians which even II Kn.rl,..,,! »„ • i '"'^■^'"g man ever. 
 
 to her even for poultry and vp/rpfnl.l,J a " ^ " 'h'bted 
 vantages, Na.ufo hasVven tS somh of 'l el" ?.?''« "'■ 
 
 Slimy port of Belfast or Z "'^^'>^''^' "' '» ^he latter the 
 Whatever "Fmir; T "'«,«''"''y/ntrance to Liverpool? 
 
 travel south, both clime and soil becomemoT kin 1 v ^17 
 snow-storms which visit ni«f..r ...^ Kmrlly. I he 
 
 Isle, and on Munster that of " the sunnv ^miil, h 
 nou^nced 01s.o. ,h. " black „or„„" a JSlS'lhe "taS 
 
 mmmm 
 
 mmm 
 
 oh^Sr/ppTi^dlo"'!-"' """" ■"''°^- "'- "-n u„. 
 
 " Where every prospect pleases. 
 
 And only man is vile.' 
 
 Ihe doctrine just amounts to this— 
 
 •that the blood of th 
 
S9 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 Snxon is nnturally purer timn llmt of iho Colt; nnd its ntlvo- 
 cutcs roiisidcT it at oiiw ilic most just fuul cliaritiililf! p.xpliiiin- 
 tiou of Irtiaud's wrctclicduf ss, tlial tlu; Irish, as sucli, have 
 some heredilury liloniish, wiiich wo iimy pity but can scarce 
 Jiopo to cure. The sliortost refutation ol this doctrine would 
 he to trace the distribution of the two great fanilics of which 
 the Celt and tlie Saxon are themselves but branches — to ap- 
 peal, lor example, to Celtic France, the second nation in Eu- 
 rope ; to show how much Kn<rlan(: herself owes to the arms 
 and arts of the Celtic Normans ; and to prove, besides, the 
 Utter impossibility of knowing, at this time of day, what blood 
 IS Saxon and what is Celtic, in a race so mixed as the Hriiish. 
 But we are content to meet our theorists on their own 
 proutui ; and, assuming that the Irish are Celts, and the Eng- 
 lish Saxons, we shall detnonstrate the falseness of their hypo- 
 thesis, if they mean no more than that the Irish ns a nation 
 have long been exposed to influences which are found in the 
 course of ages to degrade a people, this is not to explain the 
 mystery of Ireland's woes, but only to remove it a little fur- 
 ther off; in truth, it is virtually to give up their theory, for 
 
 this position none will deny ; and the true question then is 
 
 What are these degrading inducnces ? But if they mean that 
 there is in Irish blood a deeper natural taint than what we all 
 i/dierit from our first progenitors, we pronounce the theory 
 false and absurd. The blue-eyed Saxon and the black-eyed 
 Celt are children of the same common parent ; and the cor- 
 ruption which has flowed from that original fountain, has been 
 shared alike by all its streams. The history of every race 
 has proved that none is naturally worse than another, but that 
 each in its turn has risen and sunk accorning to the influen- 
 ces to which it has been exposed ; and to charge the evils of 
 Ireland on the Celt as a race, proves not the guilt of the acou- 
 sed, but the ignorance of the accuser. In the middle ages, 
 when Saxon lands were shrouded in darkness, Ireland, then 
 most purely Celtic, was the seat of learning for Europe ; it is 
 now when the least Celtic that she has grown most wretched j 
 and this shifting on the social scale would itself demonstrate' 
 that her children's dejiradation springs not from anything 
 within them, but something/row without. Again, the midland 
 counties of Munster and Connaught contain a mixed race of 
 Saxon, Norman, and Danish blood : while the pure aboriginal 
 Celt is chiefly found in iheir western regions,— yet the facx is 
 noloriousj that it is these midland counties which are the chief 
 
TlIB rilYSlCAL. 
 
 33 
 
 nnd its ndvn. 
 iiblf! pxpliiim- 
 n siicli, have 
 Jt cnn scarco 
 )ctriiie Would 
 lif'H of which 
 chf's — to ap. 
 lutioti in Kii- 
 s to I ho arms 
 besides, the 
 ', what hlnod 
 3 the ISriiish, 
 1 their own 
 irid the Eng- 
 f tiicir hypo- 
 ) OS a nation 
 bund in the 
 explain fho 
 ft little fur- 
 theory, for 
 m then is — 
 y mean that 
 what we all 
 the theory 
 black-eyed 
 nd the cor. 
 n, has been 
 every race 
 er, but that 
 he influen- 
 the evils of 
 •f the ac?u. 
 iddle ages, 
 dand, then 
 irope ; it is 
 wretched ; 
 iuionstrate, 
 I anything 
 lie midland 
 ed race of 
 aboriginal 
 the fact is 
 5 the chief 
 
 «cenes of bloo*!, and those western re^iorm wImV.l » i 
 
 ^ou say that these British Celts are at leas? liko ,ho I • i 
 poor and ndolent ? VV.. ,...1. i "" "' ' "«' "Ke the Irish, 
 
 spent wuh their case in parliament-!^r varm/Jn '"T'^' 
 gars disturbing the world ? "" "^ '''^"" ^'^g- 
 
 -rely a"y Su; ' VLt^r r'^f"!"' ' "' ^'t,' ^°''' 
 
 been the li.rht ot'V',r-r,~ f """/!"' "'"''' ''"f" ''avuiff once 
 can be dot^e" to save [t^^^' '"^^"^^ '"^" '"^'^^ ^^^P''« «» 'hat 
 
V 
 
 -r«-F 
 
 mwiw ilii 
 
 24 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 i 
 
 So much for this groundless assertion. We now go farther, 
 • and boldly assert tliat the Irish, so far from beinn; naturally 
 dr'graded, possess qualities so admirable, that nothing but the 
 foulest mismanagement could have hindered them from 
 becoming one of the finest nations on the earth ; and we feel 
 the more at liberty to speak on this point, as none but an Irish- 
 man can truly comprehend the odd construction of the Irish 
 mind.* To most men it is a puzzle — and to the British a 
 national contrast. They see before them a strange medley 
 of faults and virtues, of blunders and cleverness, of the comic 
 and tragic ; and they are bewildered amidst the nooks and 
 corners of a mind so singular. Hence they are unable to 
 discern between his natural qualities and his actual condi- 
 tion — between what he is and what he might be made ; and 
 because they see him begging and stealing, and robbing and 
 murdering, they put him down as all but hopeless. Alas ! 
 they forget that in truth he has been " more sinned against 
 than sinning," and have confounded the man with the malig- 
 nant influences with which he is beset. 
 
 If you look even to his body — where will you find a har- 
 dier ? — able on dry potatoes to work down the English laborer 
 on his flesh meat and ale ; and one cannot see his miserable 
 diet without wondering how nature can manufiicture such 
 bone and sinew out of food so wretched ! Yes, and within 
 that robust frame dwells a spirit whose buoyant vivacity years 
 of sorrow have not destroyed — of which his fun and frolics 
 are but the irregular escapes, and which one cannot but think 
 was mercifully given him to support him under woes which 
 must have crushed a more gloomy and contemplative spirit. 
 
 If you look to his mind, he is at least as much celebrated 
 for intelligence and wit, as for wildness and rags. Expres- 
 sions to him the most commonplace, you hear detailed as 
 gems by the delighted tourist ; nor can we think their simile 
 very much exaggerated who have compared his mind to the 
 fragments of the diamond sparkling in the brilliancy of unpo- 
 ished lustre. And even as to those more substantial qualities 
 for which he usually gets less credit, where has he ever been 
 carefully trained that he has not rewarded the cultivation ? 
 Shall we appeal to the revolution wrough', by Lord George 
 Hill in one of the most barbarous of our mountain regions?* 
 or speak of the Connaught children who come to our indus- 
 trial schools absolutely wild — needle and thimble being to 
 
 * " Facts from GweeJore," by Lord Georg« Hill. 
 
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 I 
 
 THE PIITSICAL. ^K 
 
 a f.i.W. Hace at the Great Exh b ,io^^ ^ wi ! '^ ^,^ ^^ ^'°" 
 su.ts of mind, though our count c^nnn;. ' '"^^^^ P"""' 
 the firmament of knowledge s"e\a; at leasrl"''''-'' f''^'"'! ^" 
 sons could do were their n,]i.,nf. , •^'*""'" ^''"^ ''er 
 
 «nd has given to ph osoohv Tr"^^ oqual to those of others; 
 
 .mith-to^e,o,uenS;'r&a,STo"^r 
 
 WatS! ' the immortal Burke,' and .^'m^^J^'^^ 
 
 traS^'c'haraete; tu winTft^^^^^^^^l^^"'^ ^-''*' -^at fine 
 all his degradation '^VvTtnhr T ^''^ting forth through 
 n^any a n'oble quality wh oh tf Z ' """^ i'^' '^' ^"^^ "^ 
 in-." a fine speciu.en^f human natue "T'^'l m"'^^ '"^'^^ 
 verb— generous to a fJh ?^-, Hospitable to a pro- 
 
 and enjoyinra ^or^^^^^T^^t^' ^^''^^'^'^ 
 which seems scarce conscious of' dljr' Of tT, ^ '^^°'" 
 sular war furnished score, of LT°?- • ^^^^'^ the penin- 
 
 '™.hofo-co„„.„.rd:Soir'„rrdCr"^ "" "» 
 
 " On th«fieJci of Waterloo. 
 
 teI:r^::;s;^:t^53ySsdt^^°^^°^p«^^-^«- 
 
 grants; and if any one is di pS in cruToT''''"" ""•'- 
 that such airoct.onate grief is^TstmLn ? "^'' '° ^'"^ 
 the letters and remittaLes therare confiruallv' """"/^n^^ '^ 
 not to their parents and Mend ZlXu^on^ ^ 
 bors, to enable Mer« also to emigrate anl'r *" Z'^^' 
 
 papers that near £2 Ofin nnr» T i J ^^PP^^^s from official 
 
 years been reLiUecTK Non'h "? '^"'' '" '^' ^^'' '^^^^ 
 people. And a return a ly'La' bv^rP ^^^'"\^^'"- 
 that one third of all thp Ip f^rc ^ 'be Post-office shows, 
 
 are destined for Ir and FdlowTh"^' T^^^ ^'"''"^ ^'"^"^a 
 nation ! Imarrine he .pnf r T ''"''^''^ '" ^heir desti- 
 
 abode whe^rLoudT^rectert^^^^ '''' ^"-^'^ 
 child arrives ! The viuIJZT.hi ^« 1 ^f'^ ^^« '^hsent 
 and as some one more eam^^^^^ ^""^ ^" '° '^^"'"'^ ''^ad! 
 
 the tears, not only of the old counU f '"V'^^' "'°"^' ""^'^ 
 
 of many a kind-hLrted LighborT'^htf lUf'' ""^•''"^' ^"* 
 
 o d acQ>jaint3n/-= j ^W'^r n is lull of inquirips »Ft^r 
 
 acq.tamtanc.3, and tender allusions to ty.glue sc^ 
 
 ml 
 
•-Id*" 
 
 wmm 
 
 ' f 
 
 Mil 
 
 20 
 
 JLLKGRD CATTSKS, 
 
 which, dospFte their occasionril tin;;e oftho lufircroiTs, do vrisf 
 credit (o the host fi'elii)<;s of'our nntnrp. In a word, tlic cha- 
 racter of iho Irish is so richly drnmutic, as to have <^iven riao 
 to a distinct class of writrr?, such as Edgcworth, Lover, aiul 
 Carlcton. The hleak winds which heat on their hnll-nakrd 
 forms may make their bodies more callons, hrit they leave 
 their feelings as tender as ever ; nnd those sensihilities whic.f> 
 misfortune sometimes hlunts in others, it aften makes moriiidly 
 acute in them. 
 
 Still we own they have many faidts j we only assert, aiuF 
 engage to prove, that tliese are the oHspring of the nnhappy 
 Gircumstaiices in which they are placed ; whih^ we eoiiteii(i 
 that many of them confirm the position we are establisliing, 
 and are the fanlls of a fine mind which has heen poisoned or 
 neglected. Mow many of our conntrymen owe their present 
 poverty to the very excess of their iiospitulity ? How many, 
 their turhtilenee, to that nnsuspecting confidence! in their 
 advisers, which marks a generous mind? IIow many of 
 their worst quarrel's, to that warmth of temper which usually 
 accompanies wannth of heart? And if, as is too justly 
 alleged against our countrymen, there is as much mercury 
 in his heels as there is wit in his head ; if he is as fond of 
 handling the shillelagh as the spade ; it is owing much to 
 that impulsive ardor of character which is as useful when 
 well trained, as it is mischievous when ill directed. Nor 
 should we omit to mention, that, being a sort of /ivivff hyper- 
 lole, he has in very many respects earned a reputation mncit 
 worse than he deserves. When he is drunk, he makes tho 
 wFwIe town know it j when provoked, he bawls and gesticu- 
 lates as though he were frantic, and perhaps makes free with 
 his neighhoF's head ; yet we who know him well assert, that 
 in all this "pother" there is not so much real, and far less en- 
 during wrath, than is often betrayed in another man's 
 scowl. 
 
 Here, then, we find the elements of a noMe race — a mind 
 and heart of a structure as fine as it is singular, resembling 
 a complicated but delicate musical instrument which is easily 
 destroyed by a clumsy hand, but gives forth the finest tones 
 when swept by a skilful performer. We have here a char- 
 acter peculiarly capable of great good or great evil — of tho 
 loftiest elevation or the lowest degradation — which, like their 
 own rich soil, can produce nothing in common measure, but 
 exhibits equal rankness in the weeds that infest it, and ricfe- 
 
 /' r ; 
 
 I 
 
)i7R, (To vnst 
 
 )rfl, the clm- 
 
 [! ^'ivcn riao 
 
 Lovor, iiiifl 
 
 riall-niikciF 
 
 tlicy leiivo 
 
 iliticH wliic.l> 
 
 U'smorliiilly 
 
 assort, iiiuF 
 he Jinhiippy 
 we f;oiif(ii(f 
 PHtiiblishit)}^,. 
 
 pofsfdied or 
 heir present 
 
 Plow niiitiy, 
 ict! in tlu'ir 
 iw many of 
 hich usually 
 s too justly 
 ch nicrciiry 
 is ns fond of 
 np much ta 
 useful whoa 
 rctnd. Nor 
 /iviitf; hyper- 
 >tation much 
 I makes tho 
 and f»nstl(Ui- 
 cos free with 
 I assort, that 
 d far less rn- 
 jther man'b 
 
 ice — a mind 
 , resoniblinfr 
 hich is easily 
 :i finest tones 
 lere a char- 
 cvil — of tho 
 ch, like their 
 measure, hut 
 
 ifc n «r« ^ vainW 
 
 I, aiiu livrx- 
 
 THE POLITICAL. 
 
 27 
 
 M -> 
 
 "f^ss in the flowers that adorn It „ r,u ... 
 can he turned to ,he best oMle~<^,s^ '''''''''' '" '^V'"^' ^f^''^'' 
 jusliy compared to fire vhid J '"'^"""'' "'"' '''"'« '^^''n 
 
 destructive of elen. enN I u k l • I'l ""^•"""•""-' ''^ the most 
 ".soful, .serving, ali le ; 1, ','''•" ""■""''^"''' '"'^ "'^" "'^-t 
 incense of the altnr^ ^ '^ ''"^ ''"""'^' '"'^ J^'n-He the 
 
 And thus we demonstrate th-it T.T.ln., p • . 
 more he traced to the n c ,1, n 1 " "''''"'' ^•'^" "'^ 
 
 eontrnry, the natural s p eri^^ V^/ " /'"^t. on the 
 
 must tho cause he so.,., , ;' ' ' "' '"'"^^'« ">"*» "ot only 
 
 n.ust truly he one of £ ("^ 3; 'r'" ^'T"'^"'"' '^"^ »'-' ^^ 
 /uir a land, and de^rad^':' .nea'^;?;;" '""^ '' ^"'^^'^^' ^ 
 
 \ 
 
 CHAPTER ][. 
 
 THE POLITICAL. 
 
 ewr^Z-a of m.dtitudes >v,otchedness— the very 
 
 •«;of ,ht one iLZ;,"'.::'t:r.s?nf''ir':-, ■'■';'' "'■""•i 
 
 "'"I » favorite ,l,eme ,vi,h the „, k r . , '"'""'"J"'" i" 
 ORllalion." And if ,vl,„ ,L ""k r— " tlic pnst of rish 
 
 in,., ,1,0 -o,,g;U^nl::^^t rb"°'*.rmr;„'" °"' ""iH" 
 ^o.w ot";sr''.,;l:t":'/«'""'' f- <■- »s^» been ,ho 
 
 'iK-y ■illed, rcg„rdin"e„eh mife 1 1' """■""!'! '"" ""= ™' 
 8ion, and .heir &li ,g, °e nli, e're. uT ',1 •'°°'' ?"'' '^"- 
 strife wliioh has so lorn, .,ra;„,„5 i _, "'^ ''""■ """ Pn"y 
 cf asi,„,„r. ,h„, h°„ve s?i^1 ., ed u'' T "'T.^T™ - 
 almost as much tho scene nf nTi- , ^^.l^nce it has heen 
 
 were the necessa rconditlon oHt' 'he """^"''' '' "'""^''^ ^^is 
 floated in the ,,,4,,;^'- ^;;;^;'-.^|^mething which 
 
28 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 i Hi 
 
 But what if it, is those who denounce this agitation whonro 
 themselves in part to blame for its existence? Some real 
 and more imaginary grievances are the agitator's stock in 
 trade; and Britain lias in times past furnished so much of 
 the former, as has made him but too successful in palrhing 
 otr the latter. Nay, even her mode of redressing grievances 
 has sometimes served his trade almost as much as her obstin- 
 ate continuance of them. Wise and timely concession is 
 death to the agitator ; but her concessions have often been 
 so tardy, and made with so bad a grace, as rather to liave 
 increased his power. She has too often led the Irish to think 
 that she has granted them more from motives of fear than 
 from a sense of justice. And when the agitator thus discov- 
 ered that litde could be got without clamoring — when he saw, 
 or thought he saw, that turbulence fared better than loyalty, 
 that the quiet petitioner was shoved aside, while the noisy 
 blusterer obtained a ready hearing — no wonder that he pushed 
 his trade and found it to flourish. 
 
 We must add our conviction that the evils of agitation are 
 much overrated. It is error, not truth, which sutlers most by 
 it in the end. Even the worst form of it can only thrive on 
 popular ignorance ; yet it tends of necessity to dispel the 
 ignorance on which it thrives, and thus it sooner or later 
 perishes by its own hand. We appeal to the career of the 
 great Irish demagogue. Not only did he do much to eman- 
 cipate the Irish mind, and, by inspiring the people with a love 
 of civil liberty, awaken of necessity some longing for its 
 twin sister, religious freedom ; but it was his own teaching 
 which mainly enabled them at length to see through his 
 schemes, provoked that revolt which cost him his life, des- 
 troyed Irish agitation as a trade, and sent him down to the 
 grave so little regretted, that you will now seldom hear pro- 
 nounced, even by those who once worshipped him, the name of 
 that prince of agitators, who, from the rock of Darrynane, once 
 governed the empire. Irish agitation has thus committed sui- 
 cide. O'Connell is no more : and where is now his vast train of 
 followers? Young Ireland, that killed him, is also gone, 
 having perished ignobly in a cabbage gardeti. Conciliation 
 Hall is closed ; Tara's Hill is now as silent as Tara's Halls. 
 Even the priests, once omnipotent, already know that their 
 new " .Defence" agitation is doomed to be a failure. Our 
 quick-sighted countrymen have learned wisdom. They have 
 discovered their "Liberators" to be oreatertvra tathnn thnao 
 
;ion whoaro 
 
 Soiiif roiil 
 
 ''s stock ill 
 
 so much of 
 in pulrtiiiig 
 ; grievances 
 
 her obstin- 
 incfssion is 
 
 often been 
 or to have 
 ish to think 
 f" fear tlmn 
 hus (Jiscov- 
 hen he saw, 
 lan loyalty, 
 B the noisy 
 t he pushed 
 
 ^itatron are 
 ars most by 
 f thrive on 
 dispel the 
 lor or later 
 reer of the 
 h to eman- 
 with a love 
 ing tor its 
 'n teaching 
 1 rough his 
 s life, des- 
 )wn to the 
 I hear pro- 
 he name of 
 nane, once 
 imitted sui- 
 ast train of 
 also gone, 
 ionciliation 
 ra's Halls. 
 ' that their 
 urp. Our 
 Fhey have 
 than those 
 
 THE POLmCAL. ^Q 
 
 from whom they proposed to frm them • so ih..r i 
 
 emiirration, not on a-ritniinn • f i ' , ^^ ""^^ ^''^^^ on 
 
 of the West. ^ ' ^'"" ^''°"g''^« «••« in the land 
 
 Finally, agitation is sometimes a positive dntv r .-. 
 
 tional agitation is the Briton's privC an fjl ''•^"■ 
 
 ances exist, the country's blessing and".T ; ^' ^''^ ^'■''^^■ 
 
 t has been the parent of rebeo^n' U h ' ' '^'"""'"" '''^"•'■^' 
 
 been the parent of pro^/ress T. 't ' '" T'"^' '^^"ds, 
 
 political Ln we W e ;r IriL^'r '"t''^^-'^''^^^^-^ 
 
 Runneymede to our latest reforTo'^,"''^ ''"'"'^P'' °^ 
 
 tionitself is its child A.^d TfT.:; , ^"'•. ^''«"ous Constitu- 
 
 has somethnes, we fear been . '-•^^''°» '« an evil.it 
 
 -menf,fori„'stance^resra\.iatoTSeTnTlt '' " '''^ 
 vince as nroverhl-il fk., "b'^'tiiuii rise in Ulster — a pro. 
 
 turbuleirce'^" \t see almL". '/ "" '''' °^ ^'"^"'-'^ ''- 
 desperate adventurer tv'^oT.? TT'' ^''''^"•'' "«' ^he 
 but'the quiet fa mer who ^InT r ''"''"'' "' '^'' «l"^-room, 
 nian doing viol .^ee to .11 h^ T '" ''T,-'^' '''' '''' ^his 
 once from The plou'h to the nl ftf 1! ' "7^ \'''^'''' P'''^"" ^' 
 tale or sufFerimrrw 1 Vn l'^ ?.'' "'"' '''"'•" --^citing^his 
 
 feeling which iTrocT.ims uf. '' "'"' ^''''^'' ''« ''•"'''' ^"^ a 
 -0 him counL c d i hose ""'","-''' '"^^ ""' '' ^^ 
 labors it isowing"ha cf ''?:n^'T'\"''"'t''^ '^ ^^'^°«« 
 amongst whose /locks thn.iv ^°''''" "^ ^''^''^^'J' «nd 
 
 a^mators" can dot^sle^rs h'V TTeh^ '^ ^'^ "," ^^'"^"^ 
 we own that there is suJiv 1 " i pdlow^tlien must 
 
 non so singular and we'^.T'l^'""^ ?"''^^ ^"'' ''^ P''^^"ome. 
 such agitation not on ,L ."'"/''" attendant evils of 
 
 H'ho refuse it ' IHic .• ' o IT "^ -' ■''"^•'■'"' '"^ °" ^'^"^^ 
 tl-m oijldsohood , b if LV it's^^^^^^ 1 T''' ^°"^'^^ 
 them incendiaries-fhe cruel est In I "'f'^ ''™"^ ^° ^'^l' 
 -the vilest hvpocr sv fo d n '7 ^° '^"^ '^'^'" ^^^ still 
 
 without breatl^l^'a .^hl ''''ZZt T' '''"''" ''""'''"' 
 provokes it— and the b Ji.f' -^^ , ''^ oppression which 
 
 "'im-sters to m Je it the iTl ''T'\^? ^''^ ^'"'^P^'' '« ««'< its 
 mission while tl o 1 ' of ""' by prenching silent sub- 
 
 ed, the only fa 1" . e, til ^TV'"'^^' ^''^^'^^''^ '^'-t- 
 those who are theCi-v s if nf '"'^ '' ^''"^ desolated, and 
 to other climes/ ^ ''^' '^^ our country are being driven 
 
 w/^lni^Sr;,:::!^'^:;;^ -,^[^-. ^---1 sul^eet of agitation, 
 
 !"e country ; but tJ s^v tha^U^I^^Jll^ ilVT''^ '"^r' 
 -t.on may produce national discontJ^t; b wl^^^ ^ ^r 
 
30 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 P'ons which hnvp hr,,, L , , ^^ " '« ^hose western re- 
 di-strcssed, and those mijf.j';;] /'f '••'»'-' t'-t are .he ..o^t 
 
 least that have heen the oh ^f st ' '/^ ''^ ^""" '""^'''^^^ 
 
 s we 1 knoivn, that years «! Ik "?.^.''«'*'''"«"t J while it 
 
 !'« height, the connt^v'laTomnarrr^' '"'''' "^'^^^'■°" ^"« ^t 
 
 « vvhen its fires are almost extiZi'?^^^^^^^ '^"d it 
 
 the lowest depths of misery ^""'"''^ ""'^ ^« ^ave reached 
 
 nesides, «^'ita( ion itself ii. n«» 
 existence to other evils ] Wi " ^"'""''y ^^''' ''ut owes its 
 ces-and then not the'a.ri, ,;;'"; ff'"^'^.^'-"'" real grievan- 
 able With ilsevils-or fC mt . '" '^^.'^'"^'^'•e is charge, 
 hey must be charged on he S 'J,f ''r^^''"^'^' ""^ 'hen 
 'S^'oranceofhisduj'^s-oa ps^" ,?^ the demajogu^ or the 
 With wise and justVulers | p?/, ''V''" "^'''•«'' "«' PohUcal. 
 therefore little righteous .Z; ^^t ^"^'^ f^^ievances, and 
 
 virtuous people fhen^^o; ^^ "ri^ T'^' «" enlightened and 
 hence little unrighteous -"it ion tI'^'%"'" ^^^^^^^«^«' «"d 
 we do most freely, ,o he ,m 'cause of n"'^"'"' ^''"''"^ ''' «« 
 
 hand?of^o'u?n;,;;::?-l,',;X^ y;;;'"'ry blood, then, on the 
 the everlasting cry of ''Wen 0,'?'''' ^' ^T' ^''^""d for 
 0"r village chiidr^.n have h^C , "'''"■^•'^■''"^"' «'hioh even 
 Pos«.ble that the favorite tpn^'- 'll ''T'}' ^^ ««" scarce be 
 "^ost fruitful source of J 'sTdis ■ " V"''. ''"'"'''''' «"d the 
 examined, •' like the has ! ' 7 ' '^''"•''1,P'--^ whe, 
 
 The "curse" alleged nuis ll ' , •'] '"'""■ ^et us see. 
 or U.e m.le in wllich ht^.tSred'^^^" the cons:itution 
 
 repubn'mirr ' t'hZ;:';^'^*^- '" I , Then would you have 
 have e<nrvingspeci;e;::;^^;;;!^;r''\tf V -d thereto 
 So have Kussia and Austria nZ'xf '°'"'^ monarchy ? 
 
 ^avery than is imposed o, , ' ' 1"'^" ?"'"'"'^ "^^' haser 
 Nero," and the '« nor,,- X J "•''•'- '^^ 'he « beardless 
 government? So has Ron i^ m Mf v •'? ^^«J^«'"«stical 
 government at once diabolical an T",,''"''' ^ ''^"^P'e of a 
 Vilest crimes in the name o? r '''»'^''*':'"y. committing the 
 tory of the Pon.ificfue o Pif^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^-'^' Nicolini's late'flis! 
 
 oS:^^t;i:^w.rti:;t^^^^^^^^ 
 
 > 
 
56 Western re. 
 are the most 
 lave sufTered 
 '_ent ; while it 
 itation was at 
 erous, and it 
 fiave readied 
 
 ')ut owes its 
 real griovan- 
 ^ is charge- 
 s, and thrn 
 rogue or the 
 not poh'tical. 
 vfiices, and 
 2:h toned and 
 eivers, and 
 anting it, as 
 '> it is but a 
 her cause. 
 
 en, on the 
 pi'ound for 
 I'liioh even 
 1 sea ice be 
 1'^ and the 
 "vp, when 
 -(Ct us see. 
 ons;itution 
 
 you have 
 thore you 
 onarchy ? 
 not bfiser 
 I'oardlfss 
 esiastical 
 mple of a 
 fting tlie 
 late His. 
 C'rnment, 
 "rs with. 
 
 with, if 
 J every. 
 
 I >i 
 I 
 
 t'litig hunrian ; but these deserve not fo h. 
 eon to its porfcctio«8. It WiZ i c^ "''''''^^ '" conipari. 
 
 Europe, tL adn,i;:;io„V;^:trir af;t",V'^^^'"^>''^^ 
 no ,nore for f, 'eland „nn to cHs.^^n ' t t ^T^ ^'■""•■" "^""^ 
 laws with such aglori scod '^^V'"" ^'^'"^"•«"« Brechon 
 served her eternaJ gratitX ' * "'"' * ^" "^^'"^^ ^e- 
 
 the best statute book there is rlmT^^'^' * ^°"^''«'^«' '« 
 «^e have hinted, we eouM «../"'' ""P'^^^'"^"'' and, as 
 But what true Brhisirsubioct ^"''?T"u^."^^"^'' '^' «"'' ««'"• 
 rope, and not feel t IkS L 7' "^'^ •'"' '"*^'*"' ''^«'' ^u- 
 our countrymen have ton rou o,J 7"" "!!™""'""«« ? While 
 gogue's artful tale of Sh T. T"'^"'^'"'* ^>^ ^''^ ^ema- 
 
 ^vithheld thefurlon?/erI f ny.!'. '/"'"'^"''^ ^""^ ''« 
 in former dnva vJ'r; . . !.?'^ ""^"'sh benefits ? Grant that, 
 
 *'-t the/^uid ; ?b ir::t:Ku;r "'^'" 'Y ----^^ 
 
 *vere to blame for the K o7 V'T'' ^^^'« but themselves 
 once was ground for the char r/. nV R v f'''''"/'"^ that there 
 <Jo you rest your ace sat ^ ow ^^^'f '"'^''"'^^ %^ ^^^ 
 represeiited in Parliamen ? w i " "^'^ insufficiently 
 
 Scotland ha, only th .r"''" ^^'^ •^'"bers, while 
 
 iong time, it en.bLe^,' etil'tTu' "™'''^^ ' ^^°^ ^ 
 universally admitted. Idrpro^/i ot '"1'''' ""V^' ^^ ^"^ "°^ 
 fnd led to that subdivisK^Klr f • T"- "^"^ ^ ^^''^e, 
 Jianced our calamine,' ''"'* ''^"*^'' ''«« «« g'^eatly en- 
 
 |"^^etings, and the hottesllt of " Vr-^'"':'^^°^ " ^''^"^'''"'i 
 hoen launched again4 tt wrl '^"^r'°' '"^'j^'nation have 
 
 vvould usher in the m^e ,rnrnf '''r*^.^ 
 "sually strength, not wetk r^J'^r"*^; . ^""' "»^°" i« 
 force of the JroVerb since her' nnH^''^"^ ''^* ^'^'^ ^^'« ^"» 
 from Holyrood^to We. master Ld T'"* ^f "'a'^^ferred 
 sure prove Scotland's pZ^Hvan^T^^'V^'^''''' "'^^^ 
 Besides, other stubborn SsJnf r ^''^'""'^ « destruction ? 
 patriot-' i-^^-n "^" 'a^^ts interfere most ri.d»!" "".'- -„- 
 ' " a])pcurii from the records of the 
 
33 
 
 ALIEGED CAVSKS. 
 
 Irish Hoose of Commons, that trade had so Rrievoijslv declinpd 
 before the union, that College Grern was bosP wi.h 
 
 to ti 
 
 lament, our imr 
 
 -- -^ •■■^ '■•■(/ciiai 1 uriiarrirn', our 
 
 w?°are t'lT' .7"''' '^' ""^^"' ^"^"^^y '"^''^'^^d. Now if, as 
 union of couri",h'"'"'" P"""''""'' ^""'^ ^^^''"^'^ «'•"«'« he 
 to uEte. a, umI "'''''''T'' ^'^^^ been chiefly confined 
 be such a blelil t '°'"'' ^'"'.P'-'^blem, Imw the Lion can 
 oe sucn a bleismg to one province, and such a curse to the 
 
 rovernrnT'^^Te'r'!' '"T' ""' '^-'"^ '^"^ nZZlV:,Ty 
 fr,he four » n tr. ,r ^^^" "°'''''°"f 'X the most neglected 
 LjnrTnn^ • ^"'' ? P"''^'""^^"! i" vvhich SO few wero 
 W rt ??.'?' '^''^ " ^"bes" of Castlereagh, was at best 
 
 Cole'Jr'^"' ^Y'"^' "''' ''''' «" '^« ancient Irerof 
 College Green to be restored, could we expect an tssemhlv 
 of much purer patriots, if we are lo judge 'by he s'^c men^s 
 iotrtXr ^"'^-^'"^^'-^^ ofTe/ou^cou^nlry th'eirs^r 
 
 retefytjZl '"\^ "^['t^'.^^'^''' '''^''^''^^ ^^'^^^ I'-e'and 
 
 reckoned 1 on 'r T ' ^'""*"- ^'^^>' ^« ^'^ ^^^^ ^ase men 
 fhrr Fople's Ignorance, that they have assured 
 
 Why "L'rx^rof'r"". « "^^^' ^"^^' '^ ''''^' ^--"- - 
 
 '^ ny, tlie taxes of Great Bntain are, at least, thriee as n.> 
 merous, compnsi«g a long list, unknown in Ireland of taxe^ 
 
 "c^rS'Z' '^T' ^°^'-, -!-"'«' -achm"en heraldr; 
 in ome, pJate, &c. ; arxi our only heavy imposts are our noor 
 rai.scouniy.cess, and tithe-rent charge, all of which a r^ 
 expended among ourselves, and the sevtrit/of two of wh?ch 
 
 th.ong our ja,;ls, who constitute the victims of British oDorel 
 s on 7-ar such deeds as larceny and f.lony th.-u com^^^^^^^^ 
 claims o the syn.pathy of mUions ? Misrule ? such was the 
 impression the attempted rebellion of 1848 made even on t! 
 own leaders that they were henrd to confess that their coun 
 trymen, "did not deserve to be free." I'w mur coun- 
 
 The truth is Ireland has been the object of the most pains 
 
 ruler., n would be downright wrong tadeny this. More time 
 
 ♦r 
 
iiisly Jeclined 
 Bt with com- 
 rns from time 
 ' imports and 
 Now if, as 
 led since the 
 eHy confined 
 le union can 
 curse to the 
 favoured by 
 3st neglected 
 io few were 
 wns, at best, 
 nt glories of 
 in assembly 
 B specimens 
 r their stna- 
 
 *iich Ireland 
 'e base men 
 >ve assured 
 taxation ! — 
 riee as nu- 
 id, of taxes 
 n, heraldry, 
 *e our poor- 
 
 w'hich are 
 o of which 
 
 oppressive 
 3 lliey con. 
 it us those 
 sion never 
 
 «nd Hun- 
 'retches as 
 ish oppre*. 
 mpose our 
 3h was the 
 ven on its 
 heir coun- 
 
 ost pains* 
 lis of our 
 ^ore timq 
 
 THE POLITICAL. 
 
 83 
 
 %»r 
 
 ment Commissions h'fb en ZoSV"'^ '' ''''^''"^ 
 causes of our miseries, and the K l-^'^ '"^^ 'he 
 
 and during the same per od 1 h """' °^ !''"''' ''^"'«^«' '^ 
 
 sterling in-^mere grants'aX JaV 7* "^1'^ o,^?'/''?^'^ 
 given to construct harbors fnrn.,7 -t- 1,000,000 has been 
 
 encourage our manufamurer- Ts O^mSM ' ^''"'^'^'^ to 
 <rom the grave of famine ; vhHe oTcZl Tl '"'' P^°P'° 
 culture, and fisheries hive ,, f '"^ ''«"«'f.- railways, agri. 
 Ponse. Nay, even our el , \T "'"'''^'' "' 'he pf.blic ex- 
 
 of this kindness has been shown eifhorLr.^^'' "°' ^ "'^''^ 
 the southern demagor^ue has for vl^? ^ '''?'' '"' ^^""""'^ 
 neglect. ^ '^ ""^ '"'^ ^''''^ harped upon British 
 
 at an":^;:!;:'};r"ourCe -es":!? ST""'"^ f ^'^^^"- ^ -" 
 favored province is the mo t ^rn '"'P'",'" '^'^'°'"- J«««t 
 
 n-tloy'al, although S^'Xrir" '' T''' ^''« 
 resist oppression as anv nf h • ^^^^^^' ""'' '"^ady to 
 
 demonst'Tltehowritloou ,,Wer""''''"'^ "^^^^ '''^"'^t 
 all, that we have for ZT^'" '^.^^^^^^^ 
 Ifgislation has confessJdlv been .f^^ "'"'« °"'- 
 
 the country is at the point of dk^ ^ r ^^ ^'"^'*' "»"1 ""^v, 
 our political empir LT^iw r°'T'°"\''''^" according to 
 cent? Alas! iHeZtlno^^^^^^^^ 
 
 now have been the haDn^" ^nf '^^^^ ''^f ^^'^ "«> ^« should 
 behalf have more sta ute^^een H"? ^"''7 "° 'Country's 
 at length beginning to p .c:^: tCk^j'.^"'" P^°P'^ ^'^ 
 their "iwtriofs" have all been Jn ,1^ have seen how 
 of our d'eopest distres^, hen if RhI^^" '•'^''^'f ^ '" '^'^ ^our 
 their voice should have been ioud^ i'^ '"'"'"'^ '^ '"'« ««"««' 
 beginning to see that o.l. r ^oU ^'^^"infl?''- ^"' "^^>' "« 
 besides those of pure mindTnnf ^ '"^uence an agitator 
 liniment can do KZ . 1^ ''^'T ' "'''''' "^^r all, par. 
 i'-If; and that n order to "7 ''^ '! T'" ^'° "«''">'§ for 
 thiug far .lifferent fro, wh t -f.^'^""' ^'■''""^' ""^"'^ ^^'"e- 
 tion concede. fTeMcohev a "^ '"•'"". ^'" '^'^'^> or legisla. 
 grand cause of theiievls^i:';,:^; ■"'""" '°, ^"^f'^^' '^a^ ,he 
 
 ^':;;^''! '----h- rS:\:;;'i:'rTir::: 
 
! ! 
 
 f 
 
 34 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSED. 
 
 beyond liis native shores, antl makos him the same wretched 
 being in every tovvn in Britain ; beyond the United Kiixdom, 
 andnmkeshim the same by:nvord by the lakes of Qu.uda 
 and on the plains of Australia; aye, beyon.l the "curse of 
 British inisrule'; altogether, and makes the southern the chief 
 nmute of American jails, while many a northern has reached 
 tne first rank amongst her citizens ! 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE SOCIAL. 
 
 Thus, the mystery of Ireland's woes seems hut to deenen 
 as we proceed. We have sought its solution in her physical 
 state, but It IS not there. We have examined her political 
 state, neither is it there. Perhaps we shall '.e more iuccess- 
 lul m our present department of inquiry. 
 
 We can .ot give the reader a beUer key to Ireland's social 
 state than .say that the clouds of feudalism slill linger on 
 her hills vVhy they so linger after havin,' gone up so gene- 
 ally ofi the face of Britain, shall hereafter be coiJiderc^d • it 
 IS enough now to state the fact. You net only see in the 
 extreme paucity of a middle class, tha* index of a country's 
 progress- ; bat you can still trace the cUi division into barons 
 and serfs only too distinctly in the modern one of gentry and 
 peasantry; and you have, of course in a milder forni, the 
 same haughty assumption in the one class, and the same servile 
 submission m the other. This remark will prepare the rea- 
 der for the following brief glance at Ireland's social state, 
 under tiie simple classihcation of habits and pursuits. 
 
 HABiTs.-.There is little which more distinguishes the upper 
 classes of reland from those of Britain than extravagant 
 habits, combined with foolish notions of rank and style In 
 quire into the history of those decayed families which now 
 fill the land and you will find, thai with many honorable 
 exceptions doubtless, they have for generations lived in a man 
 ner unsuifed to their station, and incompatible with their 
 means Even so late as sixty years ago. high life in Ireland 
 was little else than a round of fashionable dissipation ; and ' 
 the wildest escapades to be found in the works of Barrin-rton 
 and Lever, were, if not literally, at least in substance perpe 
 
 ■■V 
 
THE SOCIAL. 
 
 me wretched 
 ■ed Kiiiffdom, 
 J of Cuiiudu, 
 10 " curse of 
 em the chief 
 . has reached 
 
 U 
 
 ut to deepen 
 her physical 
 her political 
 ore success- 
 
 and's social 
 II linger on 
 up so gene- 
 risidcred ; it 
 see ill the 
 a country's 
 into barons 
 gentry and 
 r form, the 
 ame servile 
 ire the rea- 
 ocial state, 
 ts, 
 
 's the upper 
 ixtravagant 
 style. In- 
 kvhich now 
 honorable 
 I in a man- 
 with their 
 in Ireland ^ 
 ition ; and ' 
 Barrington 
 nee perpe- 
 
 Irated, A host considered it discroditahlr. If n«« «r u- 
 were allowed to leave his tahl i^itl . .• ^.°'^''''' P"^"'' 
 deliberately did thr^ue J 1^:1 Iv "^^^"'fe' '"''P '' "'"^ «° 
 that they often wo md u? he r rro/,''r'^ ^'' '^T ^'"«' 
 dinner r As for fightings r^S '^^^7'"^ 
 
 a. Tn'dispensable an art 1, ^.i'S ' r '^"^ "f.^ ^f ^'^' ^^^^ 
 ficient ground was dven forTho L f '' .' • ?'' ^''''^'^'''' «"^- 
 
 mornint^ orders at a'n 1 ote so ttZe \ote" < ^i'TT?^^' '''' 
 and breakfast for one "' w ' '„ ^'^''"'^ ^""^ ^'^o» 
 
 vices? It wastheTequen7bt^t'?.;o?ffero?fhel^^^ 
 tlemm, how many females thev hnV VlL V . "'T^^"" 
 moral nuisances were, nnnv of thom ,,^^7^"^ ' ?"^ s"«h 
 
 :=/.s&?;;?£S;'— --'^^"^ 
 
 Alas ! these habits Tiavo not all died with th^m tj, • 
 proved tone of society at lar^e forbids of nnn^' ,7^ '""' 
 reckless wildness : but so fur «f lie ' "'^''' ^^"^ ^"'"^ 
 
 ^.e,n centimes, .hough .I'La^Tof i&,a:f S' 
 Numbers are at this moment livino- at fl.f. t^'L r . 
 -vhen no iongor able .o livo „. Tfr °„'>™ "STo It'b^ 
 their conduct, one would think fhit thn^ ^naiojurjge by 
 
 will meet dozens in every southern town dn-vfn k' f" ^°f 
 
 shop a store; a plain cottage is a villa nnrlTo ' * 
 
 a ma,.. Nor i. "it .e. ob^erv^bUll' V'^o^r a^C.' 
 
 i 
 
nil 
 
 h 
 
 i 
 
 i! 
 
 86 
 
 ALLROGD CAUSES. 
 
 merits. Convenience usually yields to show ;— if tlie draw- 
 ing-room is well kept, it is not so mucfi matter about the 
 kitchen ; and the back premises often contrast with the lawn. 
 The young gentleman's ambition is to have a dog or a horse. 
 The young ladies sit in the drawing-room and play the piano; 
 and if one drop of blood of any ancient family can be traced 
 in their veins, then, no matter how penniless they may be, 
 the thriving "upstart" wlio aspires to thefr hand often meets 
 a response more prompt tlnui agreeable. 
 
 What, then, shall we say of our peasantry? Vou need 
 only enter one o( those innumerable cabins which disfigure the 
 face of our country, to get a glimpse of their condition. You 
 enter and find sometimes two, but oftcner one apartment • 
 and there the pig and the family dwell harmoniously together! 
 You look around and find a group of half-naked urchinsj 
 whose legs are encrusted with mire. You ask for the poor 
 man's wardrobe— it is all on his back ; and a sad specimen 
 it usually is of " looped and windowed ra^gedness." You 
 cannot help wondering how, when once out ol" his clothes, he 
 can ever get into them again, or perlmps your wonder rather 
 ?s how this can be a difliculty, there being so many entrances. 
 Finally, you ask history, and find that, from whatever cause' 
 his entire class has for ages stood still on the borders of civili! 
 zation ; and that whole districts continue in a state of primi- 
 tive barbarism, not much exceeded by Um American Indians. 
 You traverse, for instance, the entire west coast, from Donegal* 
 to Cork, an extent of 300 luiles, and stretching the whole 
 length of Ireland; andean scarce discover one sjfrn of that 
 upward tendency which distinguishes the man from The beast- 
 but the same unchanging style of hut and habits continues 
 tlu-Qugh generatinns, as though their oiay guide really were 
 the instinct of the lower creation. 
 
 Pursuits.— We have seen the sickly state of our husband- 
 
 ry, commence, and manufacture, despite the rarest facilities 
 
 that perhaps in no country has nature done more, apd art 
 done less. Alas ! every effect has its adequate cause, Let 
 any one brought up in an Eiiglioh town, accustomed to its 
 matchless habit of business, and the clock-work regularity of 
 Its establisiiments, pay a visit (o any of our southern towns 
 arid in what a different atmosphere he instantly finds himself' 
 How forcibly he is struck with the air of idleness that per' 
 vades Us streets ; he is not less struck with the unbusiness-like 
 
 ' i> 
 
 K 
 
THE SOCIAL. 
 
 37 
 
 if the (Iraw- 
 T about the 
 th the lawn. 
 ; or a horso. 
 y tlio piano; 
 an be tracod 
 py may be, 
 often meets 
 
 You need 
 disfigure the 
 h'tion. You 
 
 npartnient ; 
 sly together, 
 ed urchins, 
 
 for the poor 
 id specimen 
 icss." You 
 s clothes, he 
 onder rather 
 y entrances, 
 tever cause, 
 ers of civih'- 
 ite of primi- 
 can Indians, 
 'om Donegal 
 ; the whole 
 
 sign of that 
 m the beast; 
 ts continues 
 really were 
 
 ur husband, 
 t facilities — 
 >re, apd art 
 :jause. I^et 
 omed to its 
 egularity of 
 hern towns, 
 ids himself! 
 ss that per. 
 )usiness-like 
 
 - i> 
 
 ofC A^u. "^ ''"""'" slovenliness of its shops „nd 
 avvav b, r ; ""^^^'"'--^ ««'"« «<--otch house has chLsed it 
 S./ '^"'V.""^'' '.'"^ •'"">'^' style of business, with all its 
 attribute.s-.,t8 high prices, and second prices, aid inditlere ,! 
 ossortments-whieh prevailed in thosi •' good old tils '' 
 when the adairs of life jogged quietly on ; when t e go" de'-^s 
 of pleasure shared the throne with the god of r ehef and 
 when the evening was the best part of the day. Nor Jt hi n 
 
 1 s:z'"' IV"' ""; r^^'^^"^ ^""^'"^^ ^'^^ ^"^« durLg b t 
 
 Leas of ail n/'r '"' f'"^' «-«P«^""g once a-week^r so. 
 to fid tl 1 ?n '," "'""!.'"'■ "*''*'" '^« examines his ledgers, 
 Li iThi' f, f"^' ^ '"\I'^>.Sli«f. notions of accur^acy 
 it noih n ' ;, ''V ' "I'^V""'' " "'^^'•"' ^""« '■" «"^i^lv, that 
 mn once f f ? "" "'"'^ " "^^"""•'' ""^ '^'^ employeV moro 
 then let h.m say ,f our commercial decline is any great mys. 
 
 BenTJfi!"^^ "m" P'-onounce this picture overdrawn, we as- 
 over hi T'^7 '^' ''V- ^' '■' "«' notorious, that all 
 
 chd s ate wi' Ti "'"''-^''' ^^ 'P""^ "«^ ^^ Ulster ; its so- 
 cia state, we shall presently see, is as different from the rest 
 of I eland as its temporal)- „„r best houses, in most depart 
 
 n ss a eS;fn^ '''' own countrymen in the same 'busi^ 
 SiZ T ^' i'7^ ' ^"'' "'"^ •' '-^ •'^ ^f^^'" ^e are mainly 
 s tliev wl"" ''"'" comniercial character we possess ? ft 
 s they who have compelled our own people to adopt their 
 unproved mode of business, and created a trade wSe none 
 previously ...xisted. To them we are largely indel ted fo^a 
 
 CO ntv ric ''■"'' ' -"".^ ^'•^ "«« ^'' '" 'he entire paSure 
 countv Of Kerry a single butter market, till one was some 
 years ago established by a Scotchman ! Ev^n ourT 'sh em 
 P oyers themselves find it often necessary to emp?ov ieotch or 
 
 ted our fisheries conducted, our banks officered, nay, even 
 our posts of gardener and land-steward, fill. ,1 by strangers" 
 Was there ever such folly as to blame all this on iSd 
 
 theTlT •"" '-"/^ '/ '^""'"^ • The tides of business obey 
 the same laws with those of the ocean : and if we ourselves 
 were what we ought to be, the whole power of Inland couM 
 
 ^ Natural I v'" y ^''P 'H "''''^'' ^g'""«' ^'^P^"^'- o"es. 
 - fMatural l.nvsarc too strong for artificial restriciiLs j and if 
 
 i 
 
38 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 there is any conspiracy against us, it is not an English, but a 
 world-wide conspiracy. The Dutchman undersells us in the 
 London markets; the American undersells us in our own. 
 Our hottest repealers themselves traverse England for goods 
 which they might often get at home ; and too well they know 
 why— that, however humbling the truth, poor Ireland has 
 dropped far behind in the world's commercial march. 
 
 But the chief interest in Ireland, is the agricultural; yet, 
 though no people are more dependent on the farm, with none 
 is the style of farming worse. No man seems to trust more 
 to the mere vis naiurcB than our peasant farmer. Subsoil 
 ploughing he scarce ever heard of, and draining was rare 
 until the late drainage bill was passed — he usually leaves the 
 water to go as it came. His ploughing is bad, his fencing 
 worse, and his spade, called a hy, seems as if made on pur! 
 pose to disturb the ground as little as possible. His crop is 
 usuallv left to struggle on as best it can against an army of 
 weeds ; and as if it were sacrilege so far to interfere with 
 iVature's wildest productions as to cut them down, you will 
 see thistles standing on the harvest ridge, the crops having 
 been carefully cut away around thejn, and in windy Autumn's 
 days, you will meet their winged seeds careering along the 
 fields. As you go westward, things grow worse. In Mayo, 
 you will see the limestone in the river beds, and the turf on 
 their banks to burn it withal ; yet it lies undisturbed, as though 
 its use were unknown ; and even so late as 1847, when Uv. 
 Brannigan introduced turnips to Ballinglen, so new were thoy 
 to the peasantry, that they went by the name of " Brannigan 's 
 turnips." 
 
 You inquire the cause of such agricultural delinquency, 
 and find that, as usual in Ireland, all men blame all men but 
 themselves. The tenant declares that the rent is too high, 
 and the landlord replies by threatening to raise it ; the one 
 protests that his landlord is a tyrant, and the other that his 
 tenantry are sluggards : and each adduces so much in proof 
 of his charge, that one is half inclined to believe them both. 
 At all events, the truth seems to lie between them. We can- 
 not believe the tenant to be the innocent martyr he represents 
 himself, or that high rents are the sole cause of his wretched, 
 ness, else how is it that those tenants whose land is 1*. an acre, 
 are usually as poor as those who pay 20*. ? Indeed, it is quite 
 a common remark, that this class never thrive until tiieir rent 
 is raised : and should wecharge on the landlords all the pov- 
 
lish, but a 
 1 us in the 
 our own. 
 for goods 
 hey know 
 iland has 
 
 :h. 
 
 ral ; yet, 
 with none 
 •ust more 
 Subsoil 
 was rare 
 leaves the 
 s fencing 
 e on pur- 
 s crop is 
 I army of 
 fere with 
 you will 
 s having 
 Autumn's 
 ilong the 
 In Mayo, 
 ! turf on 
 is though 
 /hen Mr. 
 i^ere thoy 
 innigan's 
 
 nquency, 
 men but 
 :oo high, 
 the one 
 that his 
 in proof 
 ?m both. 
 We can- 
 presents 
 retched, 
 an acre, 
 t is quite 
 leir rent 
 the pov- 
 
 THE SOCIAL, 
 
 39 
 
 cim^^LlIoSteTi' l'^ '"""r'" T""'^^-» '" ""inly 
 rivu.ive cause, o7tl°:'ret ,!'•,; X7"'S"°'^^ 
 
 .;oipre,e«rdrp';LL^Tr2;7S„df;vt,r'x"h 
 
 to earJ^.mU.i,T[Z'V, ""; ' ""^''y ""^"'""^ «"!"•' 
 in wl,iol, both hnd L ,„/ "°"'"' '" ""ny of those evils 
 ved Forri,i„„ 1 , '""""' "'" "O"' ''opelessly invol. 
 
 TI„-« nLr^l supporters of their extravagance, 
 at IpntTth fJ,o ; -^^r, , ^ "^ve feailuUy accelerated the rirrowih • 
 
 r aps!;''i ':»;;" Pf?™"' '"« "'"f- ""« '-"'-IS™ no",; 
 eentrv w«V«f f, I • ^ ^?'' "K"' "'" "Mravagajice of our 
 
 h\d'raised\lr;.dut' o"raXTa'p*r7h ''''•'*°" 
 
 tlm f..>L *^ ,"• '^'^""^"lewarsJasted, "t meswerefroofl-" 
 
 t:J7Z:r''S'Jti\^ T"-" 'r' aecordirgfvTiu. 
 in vaiiiP fi ni^ ^ • ^''' ^'*''" "'"oduce has been sinkincr 
 
 111 le iS Vt'thToirJ"'''?'' r ^"^^•- y^' '-^ 
 
 sen far above"vltlaf i. ^i T' ''"''. '"^ '" "^'^"^ ^^««« "" 
 rent to pay wi h bu one l^ Al '' '"'/' '^"^''' °^ "^«'-«' 
 result iL «r ,. ^'^ ''^'^ "'^'^"s o^ Paying it ; and the 
 
 th Ind ;d/eZaT^^^ ^^^^'"^ ^f ''-• ^" vain we': 
 
 in timoV In ^"^'^^^^^'fc'- ^heir own sakes, to lower the rents 
 
 minded that thpV „ ^'^^ g« ^'^n eg<r ;" ,„ vain were they re° 
 tC 1 tpnamrv^^^^ ^ -i-e dnvjng to America the very flower of 
 
 . 1 ney Had not liie sense lo Jurusee tiie fu. 
 
IJii 
 
 40 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 I ,1 
 
 '■ -' 
 
 ure consequences, nor the firmness to withstand the nroscnt 
 emptation and so, allured by «' a high bid," tiU drove ofr 
 their substantial farmers to make way for a pauper tenanlrv 
 and now the day of reckoning has arrived tenantry , 
 
 ces Onrt^r ^''" "^'fe'^^^^ted by various circumHtan- 
 ces. One has been our system of " middle.men"~tl)at 
 "squireen" class, who, holding under the head laXd s b 
 let tl^ir property at rack-rents? and, instead of ea ^n^^^ r 
 bread wi h the sweat of their own brow, lived in idlcnes on 
 the sweat of a down-trodden tenantry. Another hasbeon 
 the oppressive exactions of unprincipled agents with ^'ir 
 
 the mystery would .perhaps disappear; while, torynE,.; 
 of such oblations as eggs and butter, g^ese and turkeys ma f 
 are the more costly offerings with which a trembl n-Menr J 
 are obliged to propitiate a middleman's favor " '^na^^y 
 
 fK„ r ^ -. ^!;°^r''"g hardship is the tenant's liability to have 
 the fruits of his improvements grasped by his landlord U t 
 
 ITeZVZTesTr/''' '' ^"' '^'l' '^"^' ^" '•-- ' 
 
 pc^ns;'s; ti: 'z^cx^^^;:^::^^ 
 
 to pay It or « quit." The present Tenant High tgatS" 
 Uls er owes its existence to these unrighteous exactSns Tl " 
 Ulster farmers are by far the most improving in Idand 
 ^tIJTu ^uT- \^^^^«' ^hey have made'it a ga "n 
 Tenant-Right" simply means the tenant's right to the be 2* 
 of his own improvements. Besides its obvious iusHce i^l 
 secured to them at the time of the " Planta inn ' ?u "^ 
 since been the prevailing u.irin Sster B^ 
 have of hue got'iome cau'se toThiid. u!:u ie st" t ^mat 
 law the better j and nothing but the most short-s^W t d Sv 
 
 S .T''/ "^''"^'" '''■«'^'^°"^''- That landlo^rd mu^ bo 
 blind who does not see that, if he would have his est ,fn- 
 
 mproved,itis by rewarding, not pushing the Lnant for li 
 industry. No man in his sinses w'ill male mjfrovetemst 
 
 he prospect of being robbed of them, or taxed br tS and 
 if this IS the reward the Ukster landlords will m fi^'. 
 tenantry who have made their position such an env M ^""^ 
 trast to thatof Ireland's other iLidloTdsJet ZZ^tlZ, 
 
".•^ 
 
 d the present 
 ley drove off 
 er tenantry ; 
 
 circumstan- 
 -men" — that 
 incllord, sub- 
 Jarnin^r their 
 1 idleness on 
 ■r, has been 
 , with their 
 IS 1845, the 
 I of iniquity, 
 vas scarcely 
 2ver is poor, 
 walls speak, 
 say nothing 
 'keys, many 
 ng tenantry 
 
 lity to have 
 llord. If a 
 lis own solo 
 landlord not 
 n his option 
 affitation in 
 lotions. Tlio 
 in Ireland, 
 a garden. 
 • the benefit 
 ice, It was 
 nd has ever 
 he farmers 
 r it is made 
 lited policy 
 d must bo 
 his estates 
 ant for his 
 I'emonts in 
 ^'lem, and 
 •nfer upon 
 'iable uon- 
 Jst assured 
 
 THE SOCIAL. 
 
 41 
 
 re «,,„„. of |.„d,„a ami ,e„„„, muslbe^co" ;,''", f/ 
 a measure seems lo us like couliudini; acnirsl fole on I ,v. 
 
 thf !!^''' ',•""' i' ' ''*'' *"'^'' "f Irsilnnd's social stale Well 
 from such social derangement ' It siir^Iv ,1?' 
 
 :fr;?':.':r;^i:o;.''»'-f''»'"™''-'"-^^^ 
 .eciiu'r r;:',:^ ^„inp-s, ,i fafirr;- a^r 
 
 s so bad, that he protests it would entail certain b.nkrunlrf 
 n Bruam, and where the advent of a Scotehman is deemeTa 
 blesmg to a neighborhood, and he makes a foruneonihe 
 spot where h,s predecessor starved. Nor ca^welmve better 
 p.oof of our position than the social superiority of I t.r We 
 Jmve already seen its comparative proiperitv f well he ]cl!t 
 observant traveller who visits this prov nee is st uck w^.b .hi 
 dil.gence of the husbandman, the enter rise oni"emrrc 2 
 and the peaceful, plodding industry Jf all The e i?^^ 
 frugality and simpliciiv-mother^ even of fb. f? .' , 
 attend closely to thiir households, instead odi^ng a out t' 
 
 myself." ^ '^""""'"' '° "'*""'• ' °"« ™ine to 
 
 de,iv',L" r„t"'..''i"' '/"'""■'•^ f-"' »"«» -us. itself be 
 
 ler 
 
 high 
 inquiry 
 
 vative ; and, while one cause of 
 
 causes, What can these be? 
 
 our evils, must /low from 
 
 is our next subject of 
 
42 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE MORAL. 
 
 Let us here premise, that knowledge and virtue, and ignor. 
 ance and vice, are the chief causes of social elevation and 
 degrada .on respectively. Enough of the former must raise 
 any nation to the hghest pinnacle^of greatness ; whrenou'h 
 of the latter must sink it to the lowest depths. What makes 
 the chief duTerence between the savage and the sage bu 
 knowledge, or between the angel and the demon but virtue ? 
 The nation which has most of both must necessarily leave 
 o he^s behmd. Scarce anything could keep down aVoople 
 allhght and virtue, and nothing could elevate a people aH 
 Ignorance and vice. And this is so obvious, that let^a w Ider 
 ness be filled with, the world's best benefac ors, and it would 
 soon become a paradise; then let these be succeeded by the 
 worst ma efactors, and it would quickly become a wilderness 
 more e,,,ble than at first ; or lot it k/filled with succeeding 
 generations, varymg m their degrees of light and virtue, and 
 all otiier things being equal, its condition would vary inexact 
 proportion. How seldom doos virtue find its way, even bv 
 
 tne.e, hat for the four years ending 1850, the averarre annual 
 
 Se blLiin^:^^"'' "-'' "^ ''' '^^ '^' ^-'-^ -J«y^ 
 
 Knowledge.— According to the census of 184i; near 5a 
 per cent, of the population of Ireland could ne.7Aer read no 
 write; while only 26 per cont. could both read and write f 
 rims our educational statistics, at the very first r^lance iX 
 out the astounding fact, that 11 years agoUiree fouiS'of t .? 
 popple were devoid of the simplest rudhnents of knowledge! 
 You ask how can this be accounted for. Till the Nationil 
 Board was established, whole districts depended for their edu 
 knowI.T "" '''^ ^"^^' School-that inatchless nursery of 
 knowledge, whose site was a bog, whose forms were often tile 
 
 ani vTce° whl'f f ^' ^■,^'^^) ^' '' '.^'^ '""'""'« connection of ignorance 
 and vice which has induced us to class both under the one head of mn,, I 
 
THE MORAL. 
 
 48 
 
 !c, and ignor- 
 levation and 
 !r must raise 
 ivhile enough 
 What makes 
 he sage but 
 but virtue ? 
 ssarily leave 
 wn a people 
 a people all 
 let a wilder- 
 .nd it would 
 ;eded by the 
 I wilderness 
 succeeding 
 virtue, and 
 ary inexact 
 y, even by 
 itself found 
 •age annual 
 1 and write, 
 and enjoys 
 
 H,' near 53 
 r read nor 
 and write ! 
 ance, bring 
 irths of the 
 knowledge. 
 3 National 
 r their edu- 
 nursery of 
 re often the 
 
 )f ignorance 
 
 Bad of moral 
 
 apparent aa 
 
 stud ,he bosoTof ri. a,„i ^^H ' "^ ' "" beauUfully 
 ler gems, to ,>an, si, ^1,„ ' ,j '""'.'" <'<'«'R'"'<I, !"« smal. 
 
 ble rnr™', ""'' '■':"'"■'"" if?""™"™ is still ,„ore dcDlof 
 
 Saviour but t|,;„,r A ^"""^= knoiv nothing of „,e 
 
 and crime U,„r^.'?-''Tr'''"°™"'°f '''="«"'■« ^ 
 
 molhor, sir ""■ To hf on .''! ""'"■"■ " '' "■'" "-y 
 
 "ill ofton got 11,0 roX ^" lo""' "^t''" ™',' ' """'"•*" y™ 
 have ofton^asked '°hL ,„ ' ""'"'■''• »"■• "'<> <""»»'«■' 
 
 KSditjraTtS ;;.^^''°'' r ""^ s,^^"^- 
 
 are ofton siionoed bv thoT i, ""^ "["""«' "Uswers, vou 
 I never go, tltoTetnn^gjl" GT^Z'Jh",''1< '"',^'™• 
 
 passing bef„;^i;-2;;:i7,- -^ r""° --^ ""^' -- »- 
 
 a»a «..ed in 'tiSr oaT^ ro:?:^;;;;:^^. :„7faiS 
 
 * Rep,)rt. Commmoncrs, Public Instruction, 1834 
 t Noel's Tour. 
 
 /^-. 
 
44 
 
 AtLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 tJiey thought evil spirits J.„?n 'r i""^^' *''''>^ ^^em as if 
 had little dse to Jo' ^1, i nrT^'"' ^.'^ ^°'' » ^"^'7' «"d 
 
 ^ells, trees, lakes n I J, . '^'■''' ^''^ '«"d ^'th holy 
 saint-rivalling tl :' a^iTrCT' -''l^ ^'^^'"^ ^'s patron 
 oi-naiads, nerekis fauns «uN /" their poetic creations 
 
 times see\hen/astC^^^^^^^^^ J"" ^''^l ^°"^«- 
 
 and besin to rriut.er s^'a d ,rV ^ '"'''' '"'^^ ^^ '^'"^^ »'°t« 
 in i(s waters. MosI of t p^o ^ n'"^ '"'"^ ^'""^'^ ''^^ ^^^ided 
 lous powers, and arl tho W^ r ' "'"e endowed with miracu- 
 cure 'the lame, a^d so^ t e hllnT^"?.'"^ ^^ '"^"y- ^ome 
 lar, but extend equa "li. Hn in r' °''^"'' '''"" "°» P^'"''-"- 
 Erris, most wort Iv of i. .l^^.f ''^''"'''- ^"^ ''"^ ^-^H in 
 an utter aversion t'o ule' enr/Sai': s^*"^^"""' ^' ^° '-- 
 
 ^'i'i::";^r; r;.e"n;^rir" r'° ^«" ^-^ -^ --^^e, 
 
 of ihe majority a^e, veTa ^^ ^ ^l 't'"''f '^' attainments 
 74 towns, with pop, lations 1. r''"'' ^" ^ ^«""'i«s. and 
 there w„'s not rieJoTsi fi'' r,' ^'^C^ to 12,400 each, 
 island there was, n pro or,^ to II ''"'V '^'"^ ''' "'^ ^"''"'•^ 
 every 9 which then 'S ' S. 'l' ^?','i^'''V,°"' ""'^ ^^^^ ^'^^ 
 va.e libraries, it is aid ^a n U "'"' '^ ^'"'^^' ">« »° P' '" 
 there do not exist armnnv bo' ' ^'''''' T' "fConnauiht, 
 in a small English ow , ± 1 ." 'T''' ''?'^ " ^°«^^-«h«P 
 
 would not be /bund Jrt ell.^tl-nH ^^^^ ^^^'" ''-«' 
 
 so composed, would be aZr. i ^''"^-and that the library, 
 
 i^nowieSge. 'jndeid, .ri,; "::,; s^^ 
 
 except in a few towns tl 17 f ''"' ""^st for learning, that, 
 publfsher worlfZ'tUat oftf ^''^''^^'J ^' ^ad /,'bat of 
 have almost alwav to ' k n^T '"T "' ""• '^^e latter 
 for a livelihood. We haw ,' .tm "f^ '"P""" ^° ^'"g'^nd 
 zines which deserve ti;;„rrn.l '"" '^'" "'' '^'"'^ "^«g«- 
 eur western newspa o rs w L , "^ ^''«,"i«Jority of, at letst 
 f o/^rfo„ 7mes, are'^rrrv Imnlo^ /'""^ ^'"'■^'" ^'^"^ the 
 I" truth, the c«coeM ' iUS ? "^ '°"r'">''« ^'"^^''"^"••e. 
 
 -e/t4aret:!:rit-rrr;r^jj^^^^ 
 
 * Gregg's Visit lo Erris + r„i . • . ' 
 
 ''"'s. t Colportage in Ireland, pp. 9, 10 
 
 I Ibid. 
 
 ^ I 
 
 ^**.«.«^ 
 
leir churn will 
 ^ey seem as if 
 or u dairy, and 
 lilk and butter, 
 land with holy 
 vwg its patron 
 )etic creations 
 ou will some. 
 ofT their hats 
 it who resided 
 1 with miracu. 
 "any. Some 
 fi not particu- 
 d one well in 
 nt as to have 
 
 ad and write, 
 e attainments 
 counties, and 
 12,400 each, 
 in the enrire 
 only one lor 
 If) ns to pi i. 
 f Connauglit, 
 a book-shop 
 even these 
 the library, 
 than useful 
 ^rning, that, 
 'ad ; that of 
 The latter 
 to England 
 hree maga- 
 of, at least 
 'r than the 
 literature, 
 a failing of 
 ido kgendi. 
 lary ; and 
 the latter, 
 
 5. 9, 10. 
 
 THE MORAL. 
 
 45 
 
 to the rival claims of Scott ZlT\u\T ^'""""^'^ '' ^''^"^ 
 even ou^t^t cKe^i '''7^fV"T-"t, you wi„ find that 
 
 plishments. flonrken to Z / ^''^"^ '" P'^'"^ «««""!- 
 
 steamers, and yo?/ v oft f^:"^'? '\^^^'^^ «"^ ^'''^'^ 
 -ore solid information th!u t 1 is Sr r"o '' T"" 
 subjects especially, the iWsl, rr Ih , . ^" ''^''«'0"3 
 
 but a sorry match for par v„«l ''7" T"'^' ^"^ '""^«'-lf 
 Indeed, Ich is hn thlTfor 7 ''' °" the Lan.mermuirs. 
 only do youths who are cW , 1"'^"^ 'u ^'°^^'''"^' «''^t not 
 "-ally aLnd thrmnVrsify 'b' w^^'^' 'f'^^""''^ '^''^ 
 tradesmen to work in thp r .1, ^l'\% ''"°'^" ^^^^n^non 
 
 attend the college clas Is ho ?' °"'. ''"'^ °^ '^^^ d^^' «"d 
 cannot speak ^olvora ,1 v of ,h' "'^'V ^"^ ^'^""^'h we 
 English, they have ev^r hi ^ ^?"t';«' attainments of the 
 the^Irish f^^ r irnpr rmnt 'Tu^'^'H t''"^"'^'^^^ ^^ove 
 acquainted, e.4wil7rovLr'-''^°^ ''"'"^ thoroughly 
 they may know beyond It ""'''' "° '"""^'- ^°^ ^'ttle 
 
 thfmoi pa'"a\'Z'S^::\ti;'lT "'''^^ ^-^ -^ ^^^'^or 
 be the effect ? Nc"ver wa« V !"'!!'"'' ''" "''^' ^^^at «»«,< 
 "ow. Education I as n fact 7 ''''' ^T''" ^° "^"^'^ «« 
 advancement • nat Zl ^m ? ' '''°'"'' '^^ g''^"^ ^-oad to 
 longer by arms but bv fT T '"" "^^^ ''^ «««'"^d no 
 conviction ofliso her nn''''"r 5 ^"^ '" the clear 
 
 der if Ireland *to</onflry ml h"^^ a ■ ."' *^^"' *'^" ^°"- 
 -•«ey if ignoranco" iy mlhed n hJ f;''"*"^^ ^'■''^'•^^■ 
 have no cliance in an n J nf- • ^ ''^'"'' ^^e«' should 
 
 vastsuperioritrofotherfoun rii;r-"'T'"l'!S''^' ^"'^ i<"the 
 try, from the hh.h .1^^ r ' '" ^^^ "'^^'^ ^^'^ of indus- 
 
 should hav drivS u out of I::n •■' '° ^"^^ 'T^'^^* ^''-'^^ 
 the blindest can scarce heln nZ °"'' ""'u "^"'■'^"' ^ ^urei; 
 a standing -iracll'S 1 ISTrSi^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^'°^^. '^ 
 ft :. leaving such a land, and flowi^gt oth^rX^^^^^^ 
 
 der'^hSf";a^n'etim^^?bT^^^^^^ foir"'"' T °"^^^ "^ ^^« -- 
 
 The number of ^rZ^' 1S:J:1''IXT.::^ 
 
 year. . .urprisi.ng :J:the annual J^^t Zl^^S ^ 
 
46 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 has boon upwards of 25,000 rnpn ! Thus, to control 
 7,000,000 of profcssirifr Cliristians, it rrquircs near one fourth 
 of lliat tniigiiificont army, which is found sufficient (our native 
 Indian troops cxcoptcd) to control the irrratcst empire on which 
 tlif stm ovor shone ; containing 158,000,000 of subjects and 
 tributaries; of whom 120,000,000 are heathens and \'aliom. 
 mediins ! Anri if to this military force, we add IJJ.OOO con- 
 stabulary and irietropolilan police, we have in this small 
 island a constant army of occupation of 88,000 men !* 
 
 You exclaim — can such a foice be rccjuired? at least nnist 
 it not supersede the necessity of Jails and gibbets ? Alas! it 
 is a country of prisons as well as gnrrisoijs. '1 here are in 
 Ireland 155 jails and bridewells; near 700 law courts, from 
 assizes to petty sessions ;f and 10,000 persons ministering to 
 justice, from the judge to the bailiff.! And can this array of 
 tribunals be required ? Enter any southern court whatever; 
 mark the crowds who throng the building and hang round the 
 door; see the piles of indictment , processes, and sunmionses; 
 observe the prodigious mass of business triinsacted during one 
 single term ; and then you may form some conception of the 
 gross amount oi'law going on continually over the land with 
 all its disorganizing influences. Yes, and though weeks are 
 frequently spent at the assizes of one single county, yet the 
 business is often left unfinished, and special commissions are 
 sometimes required to relieve the crowded prisons. In fact, 
 our chief public buildings, in addition lo jworhouses, are jails 
 and courthouses ; and our most flourishing business is that of 
 lawyers and solicitors. 
 
 Again, in Great Britain, with thrice the population of 
 Ireland, and this cons! ing largely of tiie depraved manufac- 
 turing classes, there were in 1850, only 31,281 committala, 
 while there were in Ireland in the same year 33,326, or 
 upwards of 3 to 1 !§ Yet this gives no accurate idea of the 
 propoi-tions of actual crime in these two countries ; for con- 
 spiracy against the laws is in many parts of Ireland so perfect 
 that even assassinations take place in open day, within view 
 of scores of people ; and not only do they not inform, but so 
 screen the assassin that he often eludes the utmost vigilance 
 
 * Thorn's Statistics, 1852, p. 185. 
 tCensus, '41. 
 § Thorn's Statistics, 1852, pp. 199, 201. 
 
 t lb. passim. 
 
 '\ 
 
 i 
 
THE MO-RAl. 
 
 to control 
 II r one fourth 
 t (our native 
 )ireon which 
 suijjocts and 
 and IVahom- 
 
 IH.OOO con- 
 in tills small 
 ion !* 
 at least must 
 
 ? Alas! it 
 I here are in 
 courts, from 
 linistering to 
 this array of 
 rt whatever; 
 ng round the 
 summonses; 
 d duriiifr one 
 'ption of the 
 he land with 
 h weeks are 
 jnty, yet the 
 missions are 
 ns. In fact, 
 ses, are jails 
 ess is that of 
 
 •opulation of 
 ed manufac- 
 l committals, 
 33,326, or 
 e idea of the 
 es ; for con- 
 nd so perfect 
 within view 
 form, but so 
 xst vigilance 
 
 J. passim. 
 
 47 
 
 ' I. I 
 
 'A 
 
 ofthe police. Nor is a less mournful fact brought out bv 
 the relaiive proportion of convklmu,. The same conspiracy 
 figainst law and justice appears in our very courts : scenes cif 
 pfrjiiry the most revolting are common on llie witness table- 
 and m parlv cases, the frr qnrnt expression even of jurors' 
 before entering the box at all, is that they will "eat their 
 
 boots 
 
 with hunger before they fin<l against the 
 
 ,, , ..,•/' - ■ - cij^uiiiM iiio prisf)ner 
 
 Hence the striking fact, that while in Ihitain, of above 31 281 
 committals, there were 23,m»0 convictions, or nenrly three 
 li.urths, ofthe 33,336 prisoners committed in Ireland, there 
 wm, only 17,108 convicted, or not much over one half!* 
 
 Per inps you e.xelaim-Surely this array of crime must at 
 oast have been of the ;;r//3/ kind ! Alas ! its character was 
 ns melancholy as jts amount. On.- fifth, at least, of the 
 above convictions were ibrofr<neesof the highest class; while 
 of the entire number convicte.l, there were no less than 1,858 
 sentenced 1o_ traiisportntion, and 17 sentenced to death 'f 
 All this, too, in a year of unusu(d peace ! Then what must 
 Have been the statistics of our disturbed years ? Jn 1848 
 we had near 40,000 committals, almost 3,000 s.ntenced to 
 ranspoifalion, and 60 sentenced to death ! You say this was 
 
 the u rath of Jehovah himself, as if made worse by thos^ 
 fearful judgments which he sent to make us better, the period 
 of our greatest calamity was that of most dreadful wickedness,- 
 and the work of blood went on most rapidly beneath the out 
 stretched arm ofthe ajigel of death. 
 
 Now, if such an amount of crime loads our calendars, des- 
 
 ?ftn, !V^' '^''^/".'"'"""■P''^"'"^ P^'i''^' <''e bristling of 
 38,000 bayonets, and the dread array of courts and gibbets. 
 It IS surely impossible to resist the conviction that were this 
 enormous pressure removed which keeps down the wild ele- 
 merits of vice and crime, they would instantly burst forth with 
 resistless fury. Indeed, such has been somewhat the ca e 
 even notwithstanding the presence of this force; for what has 
 
 cent „n1"' ' T'°^^- ^''V '^"^ ^^^^ °^ « --«' ^oZlof 
 pent-up ft es and periodical eruptions, with whole counties in 
 
 rebellion ? Iherefore it is manifest that even the foregoing 
 
 amonnfJ''' "° ''""'' '1'^ °^" °"'' ''^'^'"'^l *^°"^''i«"- Such an 
 amount of cnme can only exist where the social mass is fear- 
 
 * Thoni's Stniiatics^ pp. 199^ oqi. 
 
 t ibid. 
 
 I* 
 
48 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 to say, that witrm^'nv tr ^" '''"''"^^"^ «0'"P^ls us ut once 
 so much ZTiull an if? '"°'''^V'"^' "" "''"'«'• ^^««'"' '>«"!''» 
 
 ever proved tha t^ o r'„nf ' "'^ ''''^"'"y "^ «"«'^ '"''^''« '^-^s 
 
 own, andlt be ov sJ; "Jhur ''^ ^'^^ ''^^ei; 
 
 to prolor.g the Hire st ugX' fo " £/cf TT'^ '^^^ f""^' 
 in our wretchedlnnrJ f,7 "- '^'.^''^'stence. And so you have, 
 
 and ,„e .ptitn'a^ eT ^ h "t^^fr.i^-Jr ■"'' 
 ployer tnk ne- adv.nfnrro ^r k- ° exactions;" the em, 
 
 quent combinations- in a wLi i ""''^"'^'^Lj'ness and fro- 
 
 that where any lell'flwl r 'i '"""i'' •* .'''*'^ °'' dishonesty, 
 
 nine out of e^verf en T, iT" 7 ""','' ^°"^^ '^"^^ contracts 
 
 system of murualTvron. harofUf ' '^'"'"''^'^ °*" '^- ^his 
 giving birth ontlTol h i ."'''^'P''°P''^S^'^^«"dspread, 
 
 ejectments and on ,r,i'"'^' ^^ ^^^^'•'io"^. distraints, and 
 tince, 3 ?.e urnt'^ii^atfoiL^ ^^^ -^^■ 
 
 fen^hTrr[red"~-^'' th^ una^v^It^: c^^sr^^J 
 
 and%peak as if CmlZTr '''' ""'' "''""'•"^'^ prostration, 
 restinfon he '7l^"«,^''^»ter's curse were mysteriousi; 
 
 must ^eneraHvsta^dover7 •"''''''' ""''''"' and 'mistresses 
 
 " Sunday men -^f'r''^'\^^''^' «" ^"'i'-e class called 
 aay men, from never being seen except on Sabbaths, 
 
 everJ"a^So7^itlf witKela^d.'"''" ''"''"^^'^ "« confirmed by 
 
 fi 
 
lerely serves, 
 ' maligiiiiy of 
 s us ut onco 
 ero is in all 
 social lioaith 
 h crimo and 
 
 idleness, ex- 
 h haljits has 
 
 if tney can, 
 live It their 
 3 they adopt 
 io you have, 
 ? the tenant, 
 ;* the em, 
 lesmen, and 
 ess and fro- 
 
 dishonesty, 
 d contracts, 
 f it. This 
 and spread, 
 raints, and 
 
 open resis- 
 ive matters 
 isis has at 
 prostration, 
 ysteriously 
 
 niistresses 
 their work 
 id through 
 Js erected, 
 id the rob- 
 
 seized for 
 Is constant 
 ppearing; 
 >, as they 
 ■om being 
 al as the 
 ss called 
 Sabbaths, 
 
 nfirmed by 
 
 THB MORAL. 
 
 49 
 
 
 bf-cnuso they cannot then ho arrested for their debts • nn,J 
 where not oidy is the arm of Justice nar-dvx ,1 » n> ' ^^ 
 
 and v,ce, not virtue, was the basis of prosperity the ha f of 
 .. leae,, evinced so J'ielit r'™™ uXrouS'r" '"' 
 
 siiikmg so fast, it were monstrous treachery to cover untLf 
 Kkowledge AND Virtue IN TJT<!Tpn ir^.,« i • • . 
 
 tpund in the southern frrandfather. Indeed, the -real ed una 
 onal superiority of Ulster is clearly proved by the Pact that" 
 while Connaught almost exclusively depends orNationa 
 
 yet with twfo"^f'"' ^r ""''''' '^^^ '"--- otb "rstS 
 yet, with twice the population, the latter province t^oncin^ 
 
 thnce as many National Schools as the forme^r" Andl'tCgh 
 • Thorn's Statistics, 1^52, p. 197, 
 
 I 
 
«0 
 
 ALLKOBD CArSBS. 
 
 a largo number of the voujh nf rn . 
 
 Scotch universities, yot d ui „..''"' •'"''' ^'^"'^^'^d at tho 
 dent.s uttf.,ir1,„„ ..,„ Vf.' ""'^'"g «''e session of «Jo .1 ' .. ° 
 
 Scotch universities yc/Zl"! .F'''''.'^'^ ^'^"cated 
 
 dent, attending the ByastSnIrcSr"" "'^ '^«' "^ «'"- 
 ^I'e.^in that of Cork, there w.r?i,.°".T: °"^"1"""'' 'o 19-^ ; 
 
 "V •' "."-'-'""g me iJelfast Queen \ CnU '*"' ""^ «'"■ 
 
 wh le ,n that of Cork, there wel 1 i^^^'L "'"""'''•■'' '" ^^'^ i 
 and of this latter number ome'f ^ ' '" "•"' °^^'«J^ay, 68 
 lives of Ulster.* While TJ? [ '^'^'""''' *'"""^m ^'^ r^ na 
 °nly add, that the Tu h^mVV "''"^' '^"^^J^^dge. we shal 
 "-th to learn the eu itn on and Zf';^' '""'^"'""'« »« th" 
 the National Board is oblimi fn ? "'^""'^'^'"'e of flax ; and 
 «-ch their southern 30^00^^^^ "7"'"" ^--'- 'o 
 ^.^^'^ dffference in moral charn^fl ?,'''" "'''""'aciure. 
 Of the 25,000 troops usunllv 1. /• "V" ""^^« reninrkable 
 are found in Ulste?. anrexcen 7n w'' '" 'T'""''' ^<^«^«e 3 00 
 hese are wholly unnecessarv N ^"'"''1^"'' ^'""f^«. '^ven 
 'veon Belfast aid Derry a ^;«,„!?°' «;"'dier ,« s,atio„;d be? 
 wo most populous coumi'es an 1'" °7" '"''^«' ^"'bracing 
 3 000 police. .henumrrsa^Ln/Jrirr ^^-"^^ ^^°'- 
 1. 00 , ittle more than a seventh of ,h ^ '^'i^ '" ^®S^' >^«« 
 population.! And our pHson Ifa^fL- '""^ ^°''« '^'''dof t^^^ 
 are comparatively unnec^sarv Ar P'"^" '^^^ «^^n these 
 ^"850. the numier in U ter^was s's^ '?'' ^^'"'""'«'« 
 l^et considering how manv er!^!. ' ' "°' °"« s«'^ part t 
 jouth from the%reva7n7con^'!r««P« '^^toction ij thl 
 hovv few, in the north from ,T '^ "^^^ "^"'"«' ""^ ^aws. and 
 
 •ooIargea%uretor;prn tL'rf'.*^^^ even this 3 
 The character of criL show, - - T"'''" °^««t"al crime 
 
 ference. At almost every norThernj" '""'' .^^"'arkable Sf! 
 of the judge's opening addrc s to .1?^"'^"?' ^'-'' ««"tenee 
 congratulation on the peace of fhl *^^ ^'"^^d jury, is one of 
 oftheir calendar. Comparativll /°""'^' ""^ '^' ^^ShTneTs 
 Ulster; and capital crTeoS tH'"" ""' ^''""^Port/d f^om 
 
 murderers sheltered 1 landlords are scarce ever ch ! 
 
 •?'.';'""'• ^*''«'"«ic8, 1852. p. J93 
 
 * Ibid. p. J 80, 
 i Ibid, p. 2C0. 
 
 1^ 
 
 'f 
 
 'A if 
 
?ducafod at tho 
 •^49, III,, slu- 
 louritrdio 102; 
 ofUalway, 68; 
 lirirnt Wf re na- 
 Ipf'ge, we shall 
 IjvKluals to the 
 c of flux ; and 
 P'n fcniiilt's to 
 D'lfinufacture. 
 ■e remarkable. 
 ', scarce 3,000 
 
 "Unties, oven 
 i Stationed be- 
 's, embracing 
 wns. Ofoiir 
 1 1851, was 
 
 a third of the 
 at even these 
 6 committals 
 B sixth part.l 
 ciion in the 
 le Jaws, and 
 even this is 
 ctual crime, 
 larkable dif. 
 rst sentence 
 S Js one of 
 fie lightness 
 sorted from 
 
 that of 2.3 
 s 1849 and 
 
 fice is seen 
 > dwellings 
 afe'y deal; 
 ire the ex. 
 -rshot, or 
 ^vay inno. 
 y or two. 
 
 THR MORAL. 
 
 61 
 
 »onttoc,,u„tyl).rrv. to a hu, Ibr of iT ""'^' '""?': ^^"« 
 
 was ...tense-abundant proofof the , mve ' 'h bo " ""'""-''^ 
 and the people formed ibenKs.-lv 'ira ..... T."""""" ' 
 try for weeks rour.d the L'.ntlel^s "' ' "'"' '*"''' •"'■"• 
 
 nals woul.l pe,snude us^tha TrV.! '"'"" >"'««'"- .J"ur. 
 
 virtue; in tho secu,-ity o/ >r/n ': ■\;"Pf''-'o'- light and 
 
 encouragement of erJrp i^ a ' ;' ' '"^T '^^ ^"P""'' '''« 
 vation and success whid aVe .h.\: r " '' "\'*' ^"'"•''•"' ^'«- 
 rnorality. Bm so.ne 1^1 7 • "'"'' '^^U'-' of education and 
 
 from tL fact tl'twi one .bi^rr^'r^''^'-' '""^ '^''^ ^-"-d 
 sl)areof the p'o| c" a a"? n "^."^ "'" population, Ulster's 
 in round nut be .' "o ' iS '" -Peuses of Ireland, is, 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 TUB RELIGIOUS. 
 
 Will the reuderbe kSe o.ii in'"^'''^^"'^ ''"^^ '''P''""^- 
 further? After the S e^S ^.i^Trif T °"%^." P 
 vanous alleged causes of our coumr7swre^^ ''!''"' "''''^^ 
 had ,n producinjr it, we have founTtl e cl^/to hrt!'"'' '^"'" 
 
 DEGKADATION. But it is manifiT. .!♦ .k- ^ ^^ ^^'' MOHAL 
 
 derivative ; and we kno^f bu t 'u'""'" '""^^ «1«° b° 
 
 it cm be traced r-soJe 4^1; r^T^^^ 
 selves, or some maCariXf.f-^'t-'u '^ P^"P'« the,n. 
 We have demonstrald ^ f HrnVt^^ '''^ are exposed, 
 
 hitherto faded in our search LI T"^ '''"^';' ''^"^ ^^« have 
 that the Irish are neither curlVl^""' ^^" ^"'^ ^-^^^ 
 BcEotitm stupidity, and ,1 at "1. "^ ^^"°'"'^'' ^^--^^^'y "o^ 
 laws can any such evil nflueni h '? '^'j, """"""y "«'' »he 
 coum for such fearful dlnfrt^!^^^ be found as will a/ a^/ ac 
 alone ren.ains/ I Thf Ss^l^o \ ^"^ ^l^er field of inquiry 
 condition 1 One wolirral^^^r^ .^"t"-^-'^''^ 
 --g, as a dues, to mould and VegulateoLr'VhornituT; 
 
 Wei 
 
i| if I! 
 
 88 
 
 ilil 
 
 Ml il 
 
 I I 
 
 i i, 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 so as best to fit us for e-irfl. , , 
 i'mry stir'nr .^'''"•■^" Catholic c|. „ ' '"" P'""""'^' '" 
 
 j;;4Xf £;; ;],--|^ -- . <« 'p:S;;: 'L.t 'S Z'i 
 
 s"ch an army of nr-ni • '^"P"^' ministors ?* ivi . 
 
 IHE Coh\ciDE,\rF 'T'^ 
 
 * M."h.w v«. .r^r ""■ '''-'"'■ "^-«'. «3-45<,. «„_,35 
 
 }J«hnviii.41.44. ||,j„|,„j <Mn,.3;,38. 
 
 • * ». ¥1 John iij^ g^ jj^^ 
 
"Jlfl exert on nny 
 'y 'lus it not been 
 'P^y of Christian 
 ' 'lie priinute to 
 'itli a Jarn;e au.\. 
 fi'iai), with 2x1 
 
 r, ^v'\v,wi,h 
 
 '^ ^e " an island 
 nevvhere, when 
 9 soJemnJy cito 
 ies the tremon. 
 1 iand so fair. 
 cannot err— 
 -One who ap. 
 commission ;f 
 } proclaims all 
 ' i^nci are not 
 ''<J'-en of God 
 losoevcr doc/Ji 
 
 s systems of 
 Cutliolic. Jt 
 f" these most 
 f'\a nation," 
 i it be foimd 
 ^ as invaria. 
 V TiJUE, and 
 - ^^ere pro. 
 
 '■f'at Biifain 
 Pfotesfant; 
 fensely Ro. 
 
 i^''j scarce 
 of nations, 
 '"s,- while 
 the greet 
 as utterly 
 
 THE HELIGIOTTS. 
 
 68 
 
 Jfrishman 
 
 I, 430-433. 
 38. 
 10. 
 
 -' A 
 
 a term of ns deep contempt as that of Englishman is a title of 
 honor. We f^„d moreover, the most Protestant part of Great 
 Britam— Scotland— the most enlightened and virtuous ; and 
 the most Roman Catholic parts of Ireland-Connaught and 
 MunMer-the most benighted and depraved. Excem in a 
 few Highland districts there is scarce a Roman Catholic in all 
 Scotland who IS not Irish, while, at least until 1847, only one 
 htth ot Ireland s population was Protestant.* Yet the brmer 
 IS a land of authors, the latter not even a land of readers • the 
 one IS as much distinguished for its virtue as the other fo'r its 
 crime; and even a large portion of the crimes of the one is 
 commiued by rish Roman Catholics, while a mere fraction 
 ot he crimes of the other is the work of Protestants.f And 
 est this .hfference might be thought to arise, in pa,t at least 
 
 them tinough all their migratory wanderinus and it is still the 
 same. In every region you find the one'filling the post of 
 honor and trust, and t e other sweeping the streets or carry 
 ingtiehod; and while the Scotchman in Ireland conduces 
 ou banks or warehouses, the Irishman in Scotland is found 
 in the coal-pit or the prison ! 
 
 of7«'S'\^^'"^. '° '?''n'^ ''''^^' '''' fi"^ ^'•°'" the census 
 of 1«34, that in Ulster the Protestants then were to the Roman 
 
 Catholics in round numhers as 11 to 19 ; in Leinster as 2 to 
 
 NoL'w .""'*'"'"' V°.^^' '^"'^ '" Connaught as 1 to 23.* 
 ^ow, we have seen the immense dilFeronce between Protestant 
 Ulster and Roman Catholic Munster and Connaught in tlitir 
 
 nLt'^'^'f-^ '° '^' ^'P°'^ "<■ 'he Commissioners of Public InMructioa 
 1834) whid, contnins our Intest .Jenominntionnl census, we finclt m 
 
 tiS ''"oVp"'r"r' '■"/-'' ^"'•"^"■""^' ""J «-427.7l2 Romn Ca- 
 
 3«.riu::ri;rzir '"^ ^-^^^ ^^-^^-^ ^^^y -^^^- 
 
 t This fnct is forcibly brought out by the jnil stniistica of Scotland. 
 
 ,i.!7'"' P°"""u*'°"''P "'"P'^^^'ic Instruction have foilowe.j the ecciesias- 
 ticnl, an.l not ihe civil .livi.ions of ,he i.lMn.i. Now, i„ ,heir four e, < le 
 siasncal p.ovmces, which, thoug!) not .juite coinciden, wi,h tie .urcivii 
 one., are ..uflicently so for our purpose, we tin.l ,he reii^ous d.Z, mi 
 
 an,l I,(1M f.SI |{<„n;m Catholics. Province of CvIm I | j.^orj t'mr. ' 
 testants, aud l.ios.oGa Roman Catliolics. ' 
 
64 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 Stfitir • '-APSES. 
 
 f'-om which wnl^ °".^ "'''« consuls ,5^''^ '^'«ii.silc.s of 
 ^^^■'i find U ari'T.-"'^^" "'««« of e o o/m"" ""'''«^'"'^'« 
 
 ly correspondent toTh: o^r'' " « «>•«. 
 
 ^'^'^h province S^^^ ^°'-''««Pondent to thj P- *"' '' '^ «••"• 
 what we were emtio f'P'^"^ ConnauJu Yhe '""""" "■^'" "^ 
 
 enjoyed ZlZ r' '^"^' ''^'^n the seat nf ' °'^^'' ^'^^'un- 
 Wishes (1,8 n^n''"' "■'"i only „„ ''"" '*"«.°f each couiiiy 
 
 K'« i-seTow" v?i^,"*' '»•"« .'ou"„,s'™ ::"■■■•!' -'- 
 
 portions who coul7 , '™"°""l '''"'ilities I, ,L° P"''"'""" 
 
 (-'o.!', 08 Ko rv' 70 w "J'' =» ; Li,„„ cfc oT-77'^""'?'' 2'' 
 SO.t Tl,„ V ' "atcrfonl 7;l . r , ' "onpfjn , ((^ . 
 
 «'»is of ,?;" T r^' "Oman CattS""*-^'. '*' ' ""'' ""J-o; 
 •Comp,„R.,„„, ,. , '"""''hooannoi.hcr 
 
 '^- 
 
 4^1- 
 
The hrpvity of 
 "'e staiislics of 
 ^"'0 uutJioritiVs 
 '"'•ee provincfs, 
 sm, so arc djo 
 one more sum. 
 ^fnt^crs, 3 por. 
 •'" .' 7 in h(,,n. 
 fiere is a gru. 
 '•ofesitunrisuj of 
 ^•'■y J-evofHe of 
 ' other advun. 
 ernment, «„rl 
 o"'y is A/un. 
 re the oldoHt 
 colony linlo 
 iost part oftt 
 struggle for 
 
 >es, we firifj 
 ctiiess. To 
 
 of the most 
 'c counties, 
 olics nearly 
 )out 1 to I ; 
 •e I to 10; 
 
 Mayo and 
 ich couniy 
 '"'ch esta- 
 '^out a mu 
 ^'populous 
 '> ''le pr((- 
 nt'-im, 23 
 egiil, 02; 
 nd Mayo, 
 have four 
 ^'■otestant 
 ''"• igno. 
 Vc might 
 ' neither 
 
 491 KELtGIOtrS. 
 
 69 
 
 I 
 
 read nor write, are almost all Roman Catholics. Instance 
 Donegal, the only county out of its place in the above scale ; 
 and according to a report of the Rev. E. M. Clarke, chaolain 
 and local inspector, of 138 Protestants confined in Liffbrd jail 
 in 1849, 91, or near three fourths, could read ; while of 922 
 Roman Catholic prisoners, only 213, or not one fourth, could 
 read.* Indeed, aU. those districts which are remarkable for 
 their religious and general ignorance, such as the West Coast 
 region above noticed, are those in which the Church of Rome 
 has for ages held unbroken sway. 
 
 Nor is the contrast less remarkable in the crhnr. than the 
 Jgnorance of these counties. In the four Protestant counties 
 of Antrim, Down, Derry, and Donegal, the gross number of 
 committals, in 1848, was not in proporiion to the population 
 one fourth that of the four Roman Catholic counties of Kerry, 
 Limerick, Gal way, and Mayo; yet, of the latter, none but 
 Limerick belong to the " disturbed districts."t Again, while 
 from the prevailing conspiracy against justice in the latter, their 
 convictions are not much over a third of their committals, in 
 the former they are nearly four fifths. And there is really 
 no comparison as to the character of the offences :— for exam- 
 pie, of 09 criminals hanged in Ireland, in the 6 years ending 
 1850, 13 were executed in Limerick alone, only four were 
 hanged in Ulster, and only 1 in any of the above Protestant 
 counties— viz,— in Donegal, the least Protestant. Finally, 
 as a mere sample of their temporal condition, we find that, in 
 the 4 Roman Catholic unions of Kanturk, Listowel, Castle- 
 bar, and Bal Unrobe, there were, in 1848, twelve times as 
 many paupers relieved, in proportion to their population, as in 
 the 4 Protestant unions of Larne, Kilkeel, Coleraine, and 
 Newton Limavady. And the awful state of these unions 
 may be conceived from the fact, that half the population of 
 Listowel, and one third thatofCastlebar and Ballinrobe, were 
 at that period obliged to support the remainder !| 
 
 Lest any remnant of doubt should hang on the reader's 
 mind as to the extent of the coincidence we are tracing ; lest 
 he should cherish the least suspicion that Ulster owes its supe- 
 riority to some other cause wiiich we are unable to discover 
 """"'" ""' ' ' let us turn for a moment to its own 
 
 or unwilling to disclose 
 
 • Derry Standard, February 21, 1850. 
 t Thorn's StaiiBtics, 1852, pp. 199,200. 
 t Ibid, 1849, pp. 144-148. 
 
66 
 
 ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 countfps. While in A t • 
 over t/.?n ''"'''*'' " '« 31. VVi,h n t ' P''^''"^ "» 
 
 I80O was 106, at the exnn'.se nfpl on^"°""^ ''"^ I>erry in 
 there \ve re aq^ „» .1 "i^f"'Se of £5,299- \vhiJ« ir. r."^ 
 
 Pe ISP, ami near /bur times /l,o r i""""^*^'" '^'"'ce the ex. 
 nolonously the most tublm ^"■''•'^ ^" «^"^t. Cavan L 
 «t«mJy occupied hy a iZetl n7"-?^ in Ulster and con 
 ^roops m the en,ire%ou„,y of ilrrv":; ""'■^.' ^''''^ "'<^ -""y 
 
 9fl ♦ /'^ «re to rrotesfants in /tio ^« '--asftei Roman 
 
 Low'' ';^ ^'^«t naturali; ?uxuria7r"' ^'^P'-«P«'-^''°" ^ 
 ^nown as ihe place where t hi / '''"'°" ^"^ lon^ been 
 
 Jew dreadful cr mes anr^ «,! • '^'^'^^'^j occas on therp o^ 
 «^vely committed bv '/i^'g, '^/.^ ^-^ are almost exelu 
 
 ^"g 1851, the population ofUV \ T^ '" ^''^ ^^^ vear end 
 
 •Thorn's Statistics, 1852. p. 199 
 * Ibid., p. 183. ^ 
 
 tlbid., p. is)_ 
 
 f 
 
THE RELIGIOUS. 
 
 67 
 
 fit county, the 
 "» Cavan, its 
 Nation a little 
 '^'ce as many 
 e nun)ber of 
 m Derry in 
 'Je in Cavan 
 hrice the ex- 
 ^rt, Cavan is 
 "r, and con- 
 'Jle tlie only 
 •stationed in 
 ^1" required. 
 •*• One of 
 d one ofthe 
 P''otestanfs 
 latter ns 1 
 >vas driven 
 ion We ask 
 Catholic to 
 -'1 pursued 
 to rotii-e 
 •du-ell on 
 ^'^gcr has 
 h Hoinan 
 Mrtion of 
 or.g been 
 holds hie 
 iPre each 
 ute these 
 'y such 
 there so 
 5t exc'lu- 
 * you at 
 ?en rise 
 -orlf, in 
 Its as 1 
 rs end. 
 
 for>. -,, 
 
 Jortion 
 
 I 
 
 ally ; while the population of Cork has in the same period 
 increased 5,700, or not 5 per cent ; and even this consists for 
 the inost part of paupers, whom, during the last 5 years, want 
 has driven in from the surrounding country! Nay, pass if 
 you please through the streets of each town, and you will find 
 that HI both, and with the very same opportunities, the Pro- 
 testants are the highest, and the llomun Catholics the lowest 
 ol tiie people. 
 
 VVe really rnust not weary the reader; but as the last 
 resistless proof of the fact we are establishing, exan.ine the 
 indimdttats of each persuasion, and you will find the Roman 
 Catholics as a class everywhere the lowest in knowled-re vir- 
 tue and wealth,— the uneducated, the criminals, the servants 
 of their own land. And this is so common as to be the sub. 
 ject of frequent remark amongst themsolve,' . It is notorious 
 that during the late .Lnu'ne, even in Ireland s most Protestant 
 parts, the immense proportion ofthe relieving were Protestants 
 and ofthe relieved, Roman Catholics. The vast majo'-ity of 
 our prisone.3, even in Protestant districts, are Roman 
 Catholics. And our poor-house, jail, and hospital statistics 
 usually show, from twice to four times as manv Romanists as 
 J^rotestant inmates, in proportion to the denominations of each 
 T-^\\ ? ^''^"^ already seen the proportion in the Done- 
 gal jail, and we find it much the same in all the rest. On 
 the 8th of May 1850 there were in Derry, 41 Protestant and 
 118 Roman Catholic prisoners— being three times as many of 
 the latter, in proportion to . population ofthe county ; and 
 -/^-.t °^^^'y in the s me year, there were in Tralee 
 jail 572 Roman Catholic and only 4 Protestant prisoners. In 
 short turn where you will, and the result is the same ; you 
 can generally tell the prevailing denomination from the 
 appearance of every parish, every village, and almost every 
 house in the land. 
 
 The Inference— ilow is it possible to accour* for this? 
 It Romanism be true and Protestantism false, Ireluud's mys- 
 
 * Mr. Clarke in his Report, pronounces a high eulogium on " \\e admi- 
 rable conduct o( the Presbyterians of Donegal, as evinced b. -h-^ fnc 
 v/nr" V^.^'^y *'^'=^^''/"g. 40.000, only 2G were committed within the 
 year. I he design of this work prevents us from giving the poor-house 
 pnson, and education statistics of the various Protestatft denominatLns'; 
 
 Sii-'irT'r '°/^' Presbyterian body here to state, that the sta- 
 tisuce asBign the first place to them 
 
 3* 
 
If 
 
 66 
 
 ALtEflED CAUSES. 
 
 ihi 
 
 M 
 
 ine most shupelpsM n«r» ^<- . ' ^"" ''"« some dissp.^»o,j 
 
 NnrH.'J • "K^rut Siah, • nrid ,; • •' , " .i '>'6ry in our 
 
 Accounts for the ultornau^ SlnnH ""''V ^"^ observe ho^ 
 mation reached them Jrl /k • f''^ ^^""y ^o^^ent the filr 
 
 1 
 
 fk 
 
> all f.Uier casfv^, 
 ^y '>ut. In-re we 
 '^d el, vfttion the 
 1 tha' /JoaiinisiT, 
 ) disse.fed map 
 "s into iii pjace 
 Tjyetery in our 
 h the "Black 
 
 a Wilderness; 
 'nov ijaJfempty; 
 f^ P«rfs, is j-et 
 't':''' enigijias; 
 clin^^s I^eiioath 
 country grows 
 'onstrates that 
 ne time been 
 ' un Ireland's 
 w«s While her 
 J-^wrope, and 
 treachery of 
 le, Jicr glory 
 observe how 
 sit anti Saxon 
 licable shift. 
 Celtic tribes 
 reland dates 
 axon Britain 
 he Celts of 
 fethren, and 
 tsofembat- 
 
 the Refor. 
 d, and their 
 
 same key. 
 es" which 
 '^ened the 
 ''ith it rose 
 
 d before the 
 t thrv 'vere 
 :har elf 
 
 fth 
 
 Of ^ » ret- 
 
 i 
 
 THE RBLTOIOTTS. 
 
 50 
 
 
 IS 
 
 the sun of Europe. And mark how those countries onlt 
 sprung to hfe which this Reformation visited. Germany, 
 Holland, Bntam emerged at the same instant from Rome and 
 misery ; Spain and Italy retained their allegiance, and grew 
 more wretched. Ay, and so uniform is tills connection 
 between Protestantism and prosperity, that it seems scarcely 
 attected by chmate, or soil, or race, or government, or any 
 other usually modifying cause. On the mountains of Spain, 
 and the plams of Italy ; beneath the despotism of Austria, and 
 the freedom of Switzerland ; in the empire of Brazil, and the 
 republic of Mexico ; the same blight marks the dominion of 
 Kome. Wbiie the same blessing rests on the realms of Pro- 
 testantism whether in bleuk Scotland or genial England, or 
 swampy Holland, or Alpine Switzerland, or the United States 
 ot America, or the remote isles of the Pacific* 
 
 And the most striking fact of all is, that the intenser the 
 Komamsm the blight is the deeper, and the purer the Protes. 
 tantism the blesBing is the greater. Either the law of moral 
 jritluence is a delusion, or the more numerous the priests, 
 they must, if their .systern is good, exert the greater influence 
 lor good, and a country's virtue will be as the number of </*«> 
 chapels. Now, in Scotland, the most virtuous land on earth, 
 the priests of Rome scarcely exist ; in Spain, the most debased, 
 they are literally swarming ; Rome, their headquarters, is a 
 sink of iniquity ; and the Irish, everywhere degraded, are 
 everywhere the most intense Roman Catholics. Unless, 
 therefore, you believe that God's religion would blast, and 
 featan 8 bless mankind ; or that God, in aiming to raise fallen 
 men, has failed of his aim and degraded them, and that Satan, 
 in aiming to debase them, has failed of his aim and exalted 
 them ;— nay, unless you admit the horrid blasphemy, that in 
 
 i TJ!'*f°n'', ?''"P*'?" 'v'l'ch even Roman Catholics attempt to urge 
 ,!,i " n ^':^«>y- Suppose ^o admit it, " the exception proves the 
 rule. But locn coubcs may modify this influence of any religion. Such 
 
 ^rjrr"' '" "f'^T' ",""'"« ^''*'='^ Bre freehold farms and a liberal 
 constitotion ; and makmg due allowance for these, the condition of that 
 country m the strongest confirmation of the fact we are establishine The 
 
 ino',??f ""' Pn ' °M^'-''S'"'" '' 'he most Protestant ; the south-west, 
 the moat Roman Catholic, is styled, from its misery, the "Ireland of 
 Belgium. The manufactur.-B, for which that country gets credit, were 
 introduced by the French Protestant refugees; while its general prol! 
 perity IS much overrated, ae is proved by the fact, that no country but 
 Ireland was the scene of weh horrors during the late potato faUure.^ 
 (.See Edinburgh Witnets, Jan. 19, 1850.) 
 
ALLEGED CAUSES. 
 
 cl.arac.ers, and heaven and h° 11 chil^ "i '""'" "^h-nsed 
 Romish system weighed i„ , hi ,?, 2^'^'' P'°"!^lhen is 'he 
 For on no^and has fh, s^" XS""' """"^x-nd «nling. 
 out bathing it in flo„r„nU afe,?:"'' ''" '«" ""K- 
 «ror ever fallen without f„l,?„„ V, ■"' h T """ "''""''' "f 
 Header! is all this truelis"he L If Ir •ff''"'? '""I '''«^- 
 
 rstter^^ESs'vtr""'-^^^^ 
 
 ^ 
 
ice and the 
 exchanged 
 •then is the 
 d wanting, 
 risen with- 
 ' clouds of 
 ' and vice. 
 Then, if 
 ind by the 
 enquire — - 
 ANISM ' 
 
 PART in. 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 _ The moral universe, like the material, is upheld hy n few 
 simple LAWS, on the observance of which its existence depends. 
 These, like their Author, are infinitely wise and good ; there- 
 fore, their violation must be incalculably disastrous ; and the 
 only possible mode of arresting such disHSter when it occurs, 
 is to restore the violated laws to their full sway again. All 
 true religion rests on this proposition. And as our demon- 
 STRATioN shall be based on it, we beg the reader's special 
 attention to it. 
 
 Two of these laws we have found to be knowledge and vir- 
 tue. And it has often been demonstrated, that the law by 
 which the stone falls and vapor ascends, is not more necessary 
 to the material universe than these are to the moral.* But 
 the sum of all knowledge is acquaintance with God and his 
 works ; and the sum of all virtue, because of all the command- 
 ments, is love to God and our neighbor.f And from these 
 all good spr/TJj^s-— whatever country, whatever world has most 
 of them, must be most prosperous, exalted, and happy. 
 
 Man was made under these laws, and adapted to them— 
 with a mind to acquire knowledge, a conscience to practise 
 virtue, and a heart to feel love. And, of course, as these 
 eke/ parts of his being are improved or injured, must his 
 wnole nature be elevated or debased. 
 
 Now, the end of religion is just to train man in obedience 
 to these laws. And the simplest possible test by which to 
 know how far any religion is true or false, and therefore how 
 far It is beneficial or pernicious, is to ascertain how far it ac- 
 complishes this end. Take a simple illustration : 
 
 » See Dick's Cis.i- an Philosopher, 
 t Matthew xa:\ J/-40. 
 
IT'' 
 
 II 
 
 ( i 
 
 69 
 
 Science liolj- i,,i, 
 rfoes in tli.' ,.,if.,| 
 
 THE ORAND CAtrSB. 
 
 i-i^re the maloriiU world which relieion 
 true science pmo'JeJs in tnVt ""J Z^' '««««'•'>'//««'*. Now, 
 
 t'.^logy and iuaTklfv S h t, ^'^' ^'^^" ^^'''''^ ^^ as. 
 
 an & ubsr?s.:;£h Fihiii^^v^r:;^!^"^' ^f 
 
 V'Hions the dupe of i.nposture trmnb n„ . i ^""^ ""'"^^ 
 ng the sta,^/and using SI tttcu^^^^ 
 
 , Try any false science by this test and if ,'c ,u* * j • 
 instant. But i"ii<!f hv fj,« ""» lesr, and it is detected in an 
 ninn Q.f r-" • ^ ^^® ^""^^ ^^^^ ^'^ ^e detect a false reli 
 
 and the *,«e h>° °L„ . ,n,f . '°1-,°" ■ °- """" ' "'"''™. 
 .ha. i. n,us. be quaUrrrlrA^^ilJfoU'.'"^"''"''^ '°"°- 
 
 la ". r^ "omiT'" t°;«" "■« T'" "'* '«'™8 .h^'» 
 lh»art themTn _v;.htt°°,t' °" """"Sj:' '" ''"> «■"■' .» 
 
 Fl 
 
 ■"^^^aeasss 
 
vhich religion 
 taws. Now, 
 se laws ; ex- 
 3, like thfin, 
 id beneficial ; 
 laurel of these 
 absurd, aud 
 ses and dis* 
 ? art by the 
 y respect ive- 
 sirifTs; wliile 
 birth to as. 
 titions, with 
 1 ages made 
 ses, consult, 
 of diseases. 
 ■ moral cure 
 I ti fully self. 
 ni of happl. 
 fisre^rardir,'; 
 'th to those 
 n to crouch 
 elesa muin- 
 
 Bcted in an 
 I false reli- 
 dous light, 
 befor- the 
 ish system 
 I's nature, 
 bly follows 
 
 tting these 
 n Were to 
 Ige, ri-tue, 
 ation and 
 t the con. 
 and thua 
 spots. 
 
 i 
 
 ROME ECLIMBS THE MIND. 0S 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ROME ECLIPSES THE MIND. 
 
 The glory of our race is mind. It lifts us above the brutes 
 and assimilates us to the angels. The religion, therefore 
 whose effect is to extinguish or dull this immortal spark, must 
 be the enemy of God and man. 
 
 Now, mark the uniform conduct of Rome. She knows that 
 "Ood IS light," and Satan the prince of darkness ; that the 
 very first voice nf Jehovah which eciioed through chaos, was 
 ' Let there be light," and that the arch-fiend's first utterance 
 over this fair earth, was, " Let f! o be darkness ;" and that 
 accordingly God created man in "knowledge," and Satan 
 has shrouded the world in ignorance. She knows, too, that 
 tl;e grand «truggle of God's servants in all iges has been to 
 banish this darkness, and of Satan's to deepen its gloom • 
 insomuch, that from this their very titles are derived—the 
 " powers of light"--tlie « powers of darkness." 
 
 Now, amongst which of these does she range herself « 
 None knows better than that sagacious church, that "know- 
 dge 18 power," and that the only possible way to elevate 
 ..und is to enlighten it. She knows, moreover, that God only 
 need : to be known in order to be loved ; that men hate him 
 bf-.) use they do not know Him; that religion is therefore 
 called the nowledge of the Lord j and that the shortest way 
 to bring Mie millennium, is to " fill the earth with this 
 Knowledge. She is well aware that it is because the arch- 
 deceiver knows this too, that he has ever struggled to shroud 
 the world in midnight ; and hence, that to spread light is to 
 JoUow, and to extingui»h it is to thwart the laws of God and 
 ol man s nature. And she is equally aware that truth has 
 everything to gain by the light, while it is only imposture uiat 
 can profit by darkness ; and therefore that all honest men love 
 the light, while only Satan and his servants hate it— like tht> 
 lurking assassin, and for the same reason. Yet in the full 
 consciousness of all this— knowing that by opposing the light, 
 she not only violates the laws of God and our nature, but ex- 
 poses herself to the very worst suspicions, her whole history 
 has been one dire struggle against it. 
 
 
 Religious Knowledge. — Shall we commence with her 
 
 * Isaieh ad. 9, 
 
 own 
 
 J^ 
 
T '( 
 
 04 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 beloved mn.xim, "IitDnriitwn ;« fi,« ^ .i 
 
 doumnds its exti.ictiu.i hs thi f r!t^' .*'''°,?«'''^ "« reason 
 who made us u' ,ve c/|rues vl^^^^^^ "''"■■^'"> ' "« 
 
 make ourselves .n,m o Uw 1 ZV T ''"""'"« ''" ^"^ 
 love, so ill bears^.s pect on that 1 '' ""''""I "^ '""^^ '« '° 
 love Hi.n the better ' 'whv' (1,?^ f "'^'*""^' "''" »'« 
 
 ofe'y for delusion ad. exc ^n't br itsbr". "" '"^^'^"'""^ "f"'* 
 worlhy the old sernen in ,- ' ^'' ^Pb^^my, is reallv not 
 
 godl.ss. and Adam vastly1;n7J;od' r.l'd'r^jV'r "7 
 barbarism must be thp !».«» o. .. .■^. ,. '^"- '" « word, 
 
 Paganism is the lo Ks b ^ ,? "'d p'r-""'*'^" '?" ""''^^ 
 the apostles rfe..r.../ martyrdom' and tf^-'r' ""."^ "' ""'"^^ ' 
 zaiion ; the Prince of ulitiTi V, murderers canoni- 
 
 tbe Prince or'Zk!.^t ^^t"f?!^,T? ^^y^ "-' 
 
 "My peopIep,nsl.for/ad.of Wl^^^^^^ ^t I so to "'^'' 
 liimsell known IJeihas liun>r „,„ iZ,- '° "'"'"' 
 
 robed," .. in „„ „, round ZayT„"Vt;>" Well r '"'' 
 
 .^Tr»d:dT-t'i;r:;i"-p:;;r^-«"-^^ 
 
 ond bid, hoavcn and e.,r 6^"!;,,.,, f "'P» 'f' ^J"^'™. 
 
 .ells of hi, ,ove-„,e o'l,,,' btk G d' '.e^wnole • r' ^'"■"'^ 
 the superscription which ovph n no ' ^^'^'"^ ^°^^» 
 
 and drL, U^ ,^n of ni^^^/.KorlS-i' °'^' '"^ "■^' 
 
 .he foliowi„g°rbura7ew7aX tr'V^f "TeT °' "'"'^^ 
 muuicaton" contains the mncIT ; , .^ " greater excom- 
 
 overissued noaTrmth" f htir-'"' rnyr?""^ I,*^^^ 
 supposed to be thereby hopelessly iamnfd"^ S^ o^nV ontai'n^ 
 
 sain.s, damn him ! ?Iay the^eavens - • "^ «';'=''«"g^I«. and 
 things contained there Mamn£'Mav\'"K^';"'' ■»" '''^ ''°ly 
 he shall be ! May he be cSd iJwnr n ^ ^/ ''^ ^""'"^'^ wherever 
 be cursed in the h^air o? h?" ead ZM ""'^'^^'^ '' ^ay he 
 temples, forehead, ears, eyebrows;" &cic H^ere^fdl'" '^''^ '":'^''"'^' 
 enumeration of every part of thp hX f^fu foUowa a minute 
 
 each is severally "damned''! ! ^' ° ^^ "'''^ "toe-nails," and 
 
of dr-vo(ion?' 
 
 [nvo us reason 
 
 worship ; Ho 
 
 oniiifre till wo 
 
 to know is to 
 :iiow Him wo 
 igenious npol. 
 
 is renlly not 
 lost (if'gradcd 
 ters the most 
 in a word, 
 n tlio worst ; 
 ty its curse ; 
 erers canoni- 
 enemy, and 
 Oil has said, 
 J so to make 
 
 written hia 
 1 " deity full 
 'ell, the uni. 
 ijiihs; earth 
 this system, 
 book which 
 
 tears down 
 
 the cross ; 
 
 forcing this 
 9s of which 
 Iter excom- 
 curses that 
 J cursed is 
 le, on pain 
 
 ages of this 
 father, who 
 given to ua 
 angels, and 
 H the holy 
 d wherever 
 .' May iie 
 his brains, 
 's a minute 
 nails," and 
 
 I 
 
 HOMR ECLirSES THE MIND. 
 
 65 
 
 of the Hnmr doom, must speak to him, shelter him, or cive him 
 amors, tliou;-!, Ntarvinfr; „nd „hil,. the " curse" was still 
 powerful in Ireland, you nuVht have seen )h.' people running 
 owfly as the cursed indiyi.lunl nppmnehed, lesl the earth 
 should open and swallow them f Well, let any of their flocks 
 send their ehddren to an industrial school, to learn virtue, 
 industry, and the fearofCJod, and this curse is levell..d at 
 
 f.om he altar; the people are often urfzrd to de'eds of bFood, 
 nnd the priest sets the examjde with his horsewhip or cudgel. 
 Lveninthe enlightened county Antrim, priest Walsh pro- 
 nounced this curse on a poor miller f ,r reading the Irish B Lie 
 to his neighbors The priest of Achill commanded his flock 
 to have pitchforks well sharpened, and, in case Mr. Nannie, 
 o|- any of his agents entered their houses, one was to stand at 
 the hack door and another at the front, to render escape im- 
 possible; win e he uttered the most frightful imprecations on 
 a I who would even work for Mr. Nangle, which' he, lescribed 
 
 sjork.ng for the devil; and he "prayed that those who 
 chsoleyed his or,l,.rs might not have a child that day twelve- 
 
 st.etch them."* This pmus example has been diligently fol- 
 lowTd elsew|„.re. A late ,levout la.ly was, for keepin- 
 a farm school m the n,igl,horhood of Milltown, count? 
 Kerry, the frequent subject of such altar abiisr- by the parish 
 priest as we cannot pollute our pages with: her boys have 
 been repeatedly cursfd in the ehnpel, and assaulted on tne 
 roads; and twice on the .^nbbath evenings after such denun- 
 ciations, uere a nund.er of persons, including the writer, set 
 on and stoned by the Milltown mob. XVhilc^n one occasion 
 
 hv ni /."'r'^'' r ' "^ ',""' "." ::""'-^congivgation were attacked 
 by priest limlin and an infuriated rabble, and a number of 
 persons were brutally beaten. "umuer oi 
 
 When any of their flocks are suspected of the crime of steal- 
 ng a Imle light from this blesssed book, ihey frequently enter 
 
 rafter, for it ; and when they have found it, they have been 
 K-nown to take itup in the tongs, Irst it should pollute their 
 hngers flmg it into the fire, and burn it to ashes! The 
 liiBLE ! that blessed volume, which suits every taste but a 
 
 • Sec Hon. acd Rev. Baptist Noti'a Tour in Ireland, pp. 171, 172. 
 
 s 
 5 
 
 } 
 
66 
 
 THE GRAND CAtTSB. 
 
 corrupt one • wKiVk * i 
 
 nppose's notliin/ ut Zt'lT'"" ^' ''•'^'^ ^"^ virtue and 
 
 own ,.• , and^therefo "puTe rth:'"-T''^^^''°" «^ Go's 
 vvho.se pla,„ i,,,^^^ P^'^ as the mmd that produced it; 
 
 S Ih:? b "^. r""'^^ "-'"ob^^Tith^ut' 7' '^^^'"'"^ 
 
 ^o-nte;.Encyclicajl;:.:^'./tat^^^ 
 Dr. Doyle compared Bible Socin,! ? "• .^'^" '''« " ''beral" 
 societies, and the Bible itsdftthe'.' J^''^^'""^^' to Whiteboy 
 loud y extolled a certai T,^ ,„ fo ^V '^'u^^ ^^^^^^'-^^ > and 
 a B.b le that had been given W TT ''""^^ '" '^e earth 
 der «.„h proofs vvhich we „,iZ ,. ^"^ "f^" ^^^^'"y the roa 
 \f. f'em take the followL St^e^nr i^*"''.^ ''''y «°""'y. 
 Insh pnests against it. Preir fn' l^ the harangues of the 
 number of his clerr^v • .r^n "" ''^^o^^ Dr. M'Hale anH ! 
 F rateful to sace^fear S^Si^^ 'T'' t*^^"-:! 
 the poison of Bible infbrm;tion L S'^"^^ " As 
 
 this parish particularly, you oucrh? I n^ ^"'^ spreading, in 
 P'" a stop to the machimSs ofth' ^.'" """'"' P^^'^^^^ to 
 any one who practises t l.^re" dinfof H^' R^jf ' ^-'"'^^uredi; 
 fall into everlasting destruction ^wJ'^'' ^''''^ ""''^ inevitably 
 -^-swho bring w7,h them the wlY ?"!^'^'^ P^'^^^t per^ 
 infecnous pestilence, the infeotjr °^.,''" Pestilence, the 
 vh.ch would entail o^ yoursekel «n 1^'' "'' "^ '^' ^''^^^' 
 lasting n -a of your souls /Th'u ^°"' ^'^"^'•^" the ever, 
 schools where L Scripi-res^Jji!? T"'^-^'^^''' ^''"^ren to 
 bound in chains to the devil '"* ''^' ^'^' ^'^« their children 
 
 crirn" wllTf^ei^r;^:;"^^ darkness and 
 
 P'^emy ? This blessed book it ^^aven-daring bias- 
 
 easy enough to account for the h\Z ri" f ",^ '^"'y* thtt it i, 
 njen fee against it. Hence it tT. '"i"'' '^"^'''^ «"d wicked 
 of conflict between the serv. nts of H ?f"'j'^^ '^^''^^^''^''^d 
 darkness. And in this fe.'rA^^^ strn f' ""^. ^'^^ ^^fe'^°"« of 
 
 •Pro,e.ta,Pe„.,M.g..i„e,N„..„„„3g^ 
 
 1 
 
and virtue, and 
 ation of God's 
 it produced itj 
 lout becoming 
 becoming an 
 Rome's relent, 
 'langman, and 
 Pope has not 
 '^ the last acts 
 e present one, 
 the " liberal" 
 fj to Whiteboy 
 5usseau ; and 
 ^ in the earth 
 ■eary the rea- 
 -very county, 
 mgues of the 
 f'Hale and a 
 e tlieme most 
 ;Iaims: " As 
 spreading, in 
 impossible, to 
 'or assuredly 
 II inevitably 
 I permit per. 
 tilence, the 
 ^ the Bible, 
 3n the ever, 
 children to 
 eir children 
 
 I'kness and 
 iring bias. 
 % that it IB 
 ind wicked 
 ief ground 
 legions of 
 ranged on 
 brightest 
 fidels and 
 ver rotted 
 
 ROME ECLIPSES THE MIND. 
 
 67 
 
 / , 
 
 in the purlieus of vice. Well, here we have this "Church 
 of Gud" leading this crusade against the book of God and 
 ranged with Paine against Paul, with Julian against Jfsus 
 with the scum of the earth against its very salt. And what 
 IS the plea for this deadly hatred ? Because it is obscure and 
 misleads the people ! So, then, the elfect of a lx)ok all trufh 
 IS to deceive, and of a volume ail divine is to damn ! And He 
 who can neither err nor deceive, gave it to us in the full fore- 
 knowledge that it would thus mislead us and the better to insure 
 our rum, commands us to read it ;* and his priests must step 
 into arrest the rash production, and save His cause from 
 being destroyed by himself! Why, if there was one shred of 
 honesty m this plea, then should every chapel resound with 
 expositions, and every parish teem with commentaries on it. 
 Yet you will travel days without finding amongst their flocks 
 cyenaDouay Bible with their own notes; and be tired of 
 life ere you hear of a course of lectures on the gospel from a 
 single altar. Nay, their own primate Cullen rages against 
 those who would circulate it as "Bible hawkers ;" and°their 
 own organ, the Tab/el, raves about the places where it is cir- 
 cuhUed as " hells opened !" But this plea has not even the 
 mem of ingenuity. No man can follow its plain directions 
 without becoming virtuous ; and this is to misunderstand it ! 
 Ihe nursery child whose eye glistens delighted at its stories, 
 unconsciously testifies that it has reached that hioliest climax 
 of simplicity, plainness enough for the infant mind ; and this 
 is to be unintelligible ! Wli -t if, after all, its real fault is this 
 very simplicity ? Had it been filled with such foolish jar. 
 gon as the Breviary, or the Lives of Saints, it might not have 
 been so much hated by those champions of plainness, who offer 
 the very prayers of their altar in an unknown ton-'ue. It is 
 not the spots but the splendor of the Uiorning sun that makes 
 him feared and shunned by the birds of niglit ; and the 
 BiDle s true crime in the eyes of Rome, is not its obscurity 
 but its celestial clearness. 
 
 Again, who can help admiring the matchless device of a 
 Christian Ministry, and the moral power of a gospel pulpit • 
 or contrasting the Christ-like prstor with the pagan piUst, and 
 the divine service of the Christian church with the mumme- 
 ries of a heathen fane ? Mark that man of God, movin^r 
 tiirough his flock a living sample of holiness; on Sabbath 
 
 •Jjlin V. 39, 
 
68 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 Ui 
 
 Who. h..n J r;r tr 't -"^ -"-. " 
 
 J'"'^^'"''—-.'.esL:d cause..' 
 ixovv, turn we from tl,;c ^i 
 
 aJtdrs yoii would con,|,.„,„ ; r ■ "f ^™'" ''undreds oflr^h 
 
 '-" - "p "oil, ; -st,'"f° "'-"»-Vo if :;ret" 
 
 aiiaiwimi 
 
xemj.Iifyfng if : 
 hose life 
 
 [he Jrjsh pripst 
 
 •e pPOplo, of„J 
 
 t'leir own, the, 
 of the /fffiium 
 chance of ha. 
 « fo'iiui in tlio 
 ly Miiynooth. 
 
 'fw nionlosh 
 "solves -and 
 "iners on tho 
 
 are frainfd 
 l^'ios-uo, Hnri 
 book so vilr., 
 '""s is one of 
 P«? Thero 
 d A'Recl<et 
 s(al)Ip 1)0 ro. 
 I'ith fr.firfnl 
 "'oh higotry 
 h fhev aro 
 nifory," to 
 )rth comes 
 ^^e "conti. 
 ' effocts of 
 uster and 
 ' swear at 
 
 lear some 
 s of Irish 
 y 'laplf'ss 
 incurred 
 fi')ythin<r 
 ii'e most 
 'ven tliG 
 nnt o/' a 
 «') elec. 
 must he 
 setter to 
 
 ROME ECLIP^i^S THE MIND. 
 
 89 
 
 screen the insti,2ator from public justice. Who has not heard 
 ot the altar arlvioe, once delibonuely giv.n to a conureiration, 
 to kidnap tho Protestant electors and confine them until after 
 the election ? and - if," added the priest, " any one meets vou 
 and a.sKs you what you are doing, tell them you are hunfinrr 
 corncrakes! Another priest declared that the ladv wl^'o 
 kopt the furm-schoo! already noticed, was ni<Thtlv visited bv 
 iMfrrnal spirits; another, that devils were swarmintr i„ the 
 ratters of the house of a Scripture reader named Davern, and 
 that he had seen them there himself; while a third assured 
 tils Hock that Satan had been seen rising out of Lou<rh Corrib 
 —his whole body, from his " enormous head" to his " ponder- 
 ous tad bema made of slirahout, and that therefo'-o if thev 
 would not withdraw their children fro.n Mr. Dallas's schools, 
 tiiey micjfnin the stirabout they got there eat his " satanic 
 majesty himself unawares.* Such outrageous effusions are 
 multitudes doomed to receive as their Salhath instruction-— 
 noteven -stones" instead of " bread," but "serpents" instead 
 01 lish. _ 1 hat blessed engine, the pu/pU, is perverted into 
 one ot mischief; the very conduits ot the waters of life are 
 thus by Satan seized and poisoned ; and yet you wonder how 
 our countrymen's hearts are so depraved, and their minds so 
 degraded. 
 
 But even these are trifling samples. A flourishin^r Presbv- 
 terian mission exists in Mayo. During the horrors'of 18-17 
 the priest of the district assured the people that the famine 
 was sent them as a judgment for tolerating the " missionaries " 
 One of them reminded his fiock that it was the vorfh wind 
 which usually blasted their potato stalks ; and declared that 
 not a .single potatoe would grow in Connaught til! ihe " north- 
 ern heretics" were expelled. The curate^of Ballycastle as- 
 serted that "not till pearls would grow in his boots," would 
 they otherwise expect the potatoes to return. Another de- 
 clared from the altar that Mr. Brannigan was not a human 
 being, but "one of the fallen angels"" who had assumed the 
 appearance of a man ; and threatened that unless the people 
 removed thnr children from the mission schools, he would 
 turn one half of them " into hares, and the other into hounds, 
 and thus amuse the countr> gentlemen with a first-rate hunt." 
 And s.ich fears did the poor people entertain, lest this meta- 
 morphose should actually take place, that they were only in- 
 
 • Gregg's Visit to Connemara, p. 13. 
 
70 
 
 ''HE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 duced to let their children remain m ^u u , 
 "igan promising, «hat if ,he pZt , Jn ?''?^^' "'^ ^'*- S''^"- 
 and hares, he would restore them oth..^ "''"V'"'° ^'"^^^ 
 say such cases are rare-n-^^slerr t^''""" ^°'''" '* You 
 occurrence ; and we are onIvnn?r!. 7 ^'^ «^ constant 
 at. this time of day wo fid qSon 'f "' '^' '^''^^"^^ ^^'^'•^h 
 '"■racles themselves are eJerv Zv ' P''^^«''^"ce. Why, 
 what wonder, if, when France^; bL.r^'r!'"^"* "« ' «"d 
 sK^rs, and Italy with its winL?„ '''^ '^'"^ "« Ko«e Tami. 
 
 should be voucLafed orZo^i^^T"']- " ^^"■"^*^ '^'-d" 
 the priests do not attemm suolf • "'"".' '^';;»""0"s ? You sav 
 amongst such obs.inatrheretS whf /" l"^^'"^ ^ ^hat'T 
 cry delusion !-who snee even at I '^ °"'^ '^"^^ ^"^ 
 Newman himself has just cn,.m!r • .^"^^ miracles which 
 as beJieve that St. AntCnySS^p' '"'^ """'* ^ -"^S 
 and St J)enis, when decapita fd '1 °^,?.^'\°" ^ milLstone, 
 for miles ! But Ii^land isTlltinfhi '?'L^""^ ''" ^'^ hand 
 IS honored with such mirades a tt^li''''^^"^- ^"^ «« «he 
 and the devil cast out of r^en in ,hpV' ^"'^'l'^ °^ ^oughal, 
 from Lough Derg to Gooj^an Barra frT n ^ T'' ' And 
 Carngahne she is covered with wp'i I ^ ?-\T^^ ^^''^<^^ to 
 of course, priests are the pre Vdin! '"'^ '"^'«' ^^'^ vvhich, 
 Pense blessings of every E T ^T'"'"'' '^"^ ^hich dis 
 jh^T sight, the lame ATk eLv ?or^''r ^^^ '^''"'^ '"^-^ive 
 ^h^n the cure fails, wan ofSh^Tnf "'^^^^>' «'««; and 
 What though other lands rrioice in h "^""'■'^ '^^ '^''°"' 
 though to oblige the fair hfni u '''^"' P''offcfing relics • 
 feather from hi! w ng • t e V^ ^!^^ ^"g'^J Gabriel haf given a 
 and the blessed Savl^'hL soTul^'7.\^""'^«^^'- '"''k' 
 have one at Treves, another at Rny'^.H' ^°^'' 'hat vou 
 ;here; and each apostrhaslindlv'i' r."u- ^'^^'^^^ozen else. 
 different places, thai if all ts head, i n""^ '" '° '"«"y 
 
 have at least as many aH hi "'!,'-e collected, he would 
 
 though by reason doJbtTesrof^^^ ^'^ •^^'"^g^" --t-vvha' 
 i-ngland, we are denied such blL^n P'^P/^q^'^y to heretic 
 as an apostolic toe-nail, or ro,,en S'/';"^ ^'T ""''^ "'"^h 
 onr miracle-working priests v«/ '° ''°''' ^"^^^' to,-with 
 
 k 
 
■ I '.p'li tt u w wi * mv . §.!: 
 
 Is of" Mr. Bran. 
 '11 into hounds 
 n form .'* You 
 ''e of constant 
 :norance which 
 ilence. Why, 
 lon^rst us ; and 
 its Rose Tami. 
 ihojic Ireland" 
 "IS ? You sav 
 and ? What'.' 
 I'y laugh and 
 racles which 
 ''on't so much 
 I a mill-stone, 
 id in his hand 
 And so she 
 ' of Youghal, 
 crow I And 
 rh Patrick to 
 over which, 
 id which dis- 
 >lind receive 
 y flies ; and 
 
 the reason. 
 '^ing relics; 
 has given a 
 »f her milk ; 
 it, that you 
 -dozen else, 
 in so many 
 h he Would 
 ^ ••f-— what, 
 
 to heretic 
 otso much 
 I to, — with 
 on without 
 
 they have 
 iof2s. for 
 may have 
 
 ly in 1847. 
 
 ROME ECLIPSES THE MIND. 
 
 71 
 
 as many miraculous draughts as thev nlease Wh^n „ • 
 or a cow takes ill, let the priest be p^'d'f rs 'yinla ma'ss'o? 
 
 rcxovcK Nay, if you wajit every form of coblin kent af « 
 respectiul distance, only get some " holy wafer'' or "^blsLd 
 clay from the priest ; and there is not an inhabitant of ^h2 
 infernal world that will not fly before you ' "''^'^'"^ °* '^e 
 
 wor. auLg^t the ^.g^ J^^^, ^^^r^^^S:? 
 
 prostration must these men have reduced their peoples m?nl/ 
 before they could believe or tolerate such impSler Ad 
 If Rome can so besot and km the finest mind as to have t a 
 few years transformed Newm.n himself into a devout be 
 ever m her most drivelling legends, what must be the efTect' 
 h t ^'''^'/"'^V^ ^ '3^^*^'" ^hich thus at once excludes 
 the truth and teaches such impudent falsehoods ' Or vhnt 
 mind could help sinking into utter decrepitude wherhus 
 deprived of Us proper aliment, and fed instead on a Impound 
 of t. ash and poison, such as never yet has failed to Z'S 
 
 brattSg^ptvlr^. '""^ ^^^^ '''' ''- -- ^- '^ Wot 
 
 nottr Lf aTpS^anTlt in\;\r7"aSth^^^'^"^ ^^^ 
 deepens as Rome prevails Nlthf '^^ ^^ '^'""'^"^^ 
 priesthood is their o^n Sest ZTsU ^'unt^TryTaSl/lh?; 
 ru ed the country-the government itself was obe^dient to the,> 
 will-and from the centre of their respective parishes thev 
 were virtually able to look round and exclaim "T«7 
 monarch ol all / survev " Th-,,> excJdim, "] am 
 
 *u . i! , survey. j hen surely no one will dnnf^t 
 
 that such men, who could drive their people like Thrn. Tk 
 hustings and through the worst of'Km ine tep the^Rene.l 
 chest fu 1, could have planted the country thick ^ihsfmina 
 
 S "wS^ha^"';^' "^ '''"' '"^'^^^^^ '^e ZleTue 
 ThPv k\ .T ^^''' '''^' °"«^^ «o employed their powers ? 
 They have not been .low u> mold them in other dirSns'- 
 but where are the !. arie? thev have fnrm».t r.. ,^ ,^"°"»» 
 .hey have foandod, r..yZC7jj7^LZt polS 
 fc',l±J ri'^lr 'h.»y -i-d for li.er.ry one. ?" Thev 
 " " "-'-S"" sooieiKs lor agilaiion and miachief; 
 
72 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 elevalo ihoir own po.,L In I' ' ' ^^ ^\'? 'T "^^^'^ ''«"« »« 
 ;''« only .shar. tl.o p V vo I. !f ^^ '^^, "''•^'-^'^'nts ; and 
 
 beea to give it Uua! ^u^^^^i^^J^^,'^ each movomnnt, has 
 emm has boon ma.lo hy nduS ' I.nT?''""', ^^'"^" «" 
 on-glit into those h(.^^.|uo | ^c^Ito '^''°°^' '« •^""^ « few rays 
 tl'l'v Lave hold undistu U iT.r.;' '^''?'' "' ^^''''^'^ ^'^'' 4s 
 which proves hut ^ doi " ''''^IV "'"'^^ '^'"''^^^^ ^ ^^^Y 
 and tremble at the approach onhn"; '^'7 " '^""^ ^'« '^^^'^^Z' 
 teacher the author ^K a^tor ' r"''^'^'"; O"*^ ^^'^^'e 
 a Pnest entering h.r sc iiool ,, fn '' '"''' '"'°"°^' °" ^Y 
 dren. Lately ^ I^dlina n i' ' ^"^'^""^' ^'^^ ^^'''•i^i'^d cli 
 poor widow on the ' |. 1 ' T'' f""°«''^"'ed for beating a 
 t"al school ; a ytm V see ' ^''\ '''"'^ '^"^"'^^^ ^-" i^^^us! 
 a long lette.'. frorn^n's pe f Td ? n ^''' ". ^^"'"'^^'•^ ^^'•«^^." 
 the horsewhip, as o o oV ho ot ''' •^"^, ''^'^'" '^"^ation of 
 astical discipline, And w en Tf rP^'T''' ^^ '''^^^^^ 
 a similar school in Wes tnort frn T\ r^^''^"' established 
 excluded, the priol S rS.lt'n/'^'^ ^''^'^ ^^^« ^^h«lly 
 National school,; have b en ofie'd 1 -'"^^ '^u'^^''°>'«'^ "• 
 Plete control," ypt nun t .•'/"' ^'^'"^ ^'^'^'^ "com- 
 '"any whoat'fn^tado t ;m"did!f'^^' '' ^^P' them: 
 of opposition to those Prot s ,n,f' * ^'^"^ ^^''^^"''e out 
 
 \« the National Boar | , ' 'r"'"''''''^''''° ^^''^ ""^endly 
 that these schools .re sor LiT' '""'""''""•^ '^^''^'^ J«"^' seen 
 and would gladi;Ze hemi/tr '""'^^"^'-^'^ their f; et 
 P'-oofofthisrevorv moan.T.^o "f ^ ^9"^^ ^ and as the bes 
 the Vatican to th^d^c 1 "fTr''^^'^^'/'''''" the thunders of 
 Colleges, which are " ' .^d 1 h "I' '' '''''"^y ^'^^ Q-en'i 
 You reply, there arn » . "^''^ *""*« principles. 
 
 -e; yet.Vorhaprnot\o SvT'' ?' ^^"^^ »'>-« 
 
 pbserve, kind reldl-r, that o r few nrr'./'^'"'^- ^" ^'^^ "«' 
 1"? are chi.fly found in Pro stnn w'^^^ ^ P''^''^"' °^ ^'^^''"■ 
 are frequenti; c<,mn.;; od X h, j'- "^'''"t their schools 
 
 frequently cease when frrmi'/nCl ^ '«testant ones, and a. 
 up; that we never l,o;rd'j^^.r''k^'''''^"'^'* "^'^ given 
 
 <^er the Queen's C^Cv-r: el ufsr^^ ^fT^''^- '^ 
 of the worst enemies of our inrtn f r'^^lished ; and that some 
 
 I'fhing similar one^as the onlv hTn" '?''r'' ""'^ "«^ ««tab. 
 ch.Iron away from „ , Y^s TnJIV T" nl "''""s ^^^'^ 
 Catholic is more enli.rhtened Hwm n ^^■^*^'' ^«'"an 
 
 '""^ ^- " i3 Pop^yheir. .tit i^rTaS';„is;' 
 
niental improve, 
 er boen done (o 
 'rotostants ; and 
 
 movement, has 
 on. When an 
 'f^nd a few rays 
 
 which for af,'ps 
 manifest a fury 
 ate its heams," 
 ". One female 
 t^rought on by 
 
 terrified chil- 
 
 I for be tiling a 
 tided an indus- 
 iw/et/ Herald," 
 
 II laudation of 
 fits of ecclesi- 
 •nt established 
 le was wholly 
 
 destroyed it. 
 
 them "com- 
 
 icoept them; 
 t measure out 
 •re unfriendly 
 •'e long seen 
 h their f et, 
 J as the best 
 3 thunders of 
 lose Queen's 
 ncip/cs. 
 course there 
 Do 3'ou not 
 ns of learn- 
 heir schools 
 nes, and a.-v 
 ' are given 
 iversity till 
 I that some 
 now estab. 
 ^'iling their 
 er Roman 
 lit brother, 
 you really 
 
 ROME ECLIPSES THE MIND. 
 
 73 
 
 doubt the doom that would have b-^fillen him, had he been 
 cradled in those western regions where Popery roicrns, and 
 with It mental "chaos and old night ;" or be at any loss to 
 know what the Connaught priests would do for Ulster, did 
 they possess the power '( 
 
 But, of course, it is not in those islands, where Rome's 
 constant restlessness proves how fettered she feels, that you 
 are to look for her genuine character. Go to those dominions 
 where she "sits a queen," and the prince does homage to 
 the priest ; and where has sfic ever gained the ascendency 
 that her first step has not been to exLivguUh the. light ? Go to 
 her capital, and s(.e ttio vast machinery there constantly 
 employed to stifle the free utterances of mind. Behold that 
 "conclave of owls," the Congregation of the Index, ready to 
 pounce on every author who would dare think for himself, and 
 consign him to the Inquisition for the good of his soul. 
 
 By that ghostly tribunal has the traveller's portmanteau 
 been ransacked. In their expurgatory and prohibitory index, 
 the first book proscribed is the Word of God ! And while 
 you search it in vain for the vilest productions, you see in its 
 dark catalogue sucli matchU-ss works as those of Locke and 
 Bacon, Addison an 1 IJale, Cowpor and Young, Mosheim and 
 Kobertson ! Instructive contrast, trulv, between Rome and 
 Jiiigland ! Earth's most illustrious authors the one rears and 
 the other proscribes. True, painting and sculpture have flour- 
 ished under Rome, and there is a good reason. Such men 
 as Kanhael and Angelo were this giant enslaver's best ser- 
 vanfs, by filling her cathedrals with that charming "drapery " 
 which s|)ell.binds the ignorant devotee ; for none knows bet- 
 ter than Rome how to speak to the senses by the statued aisle, 
 and the painted window, and the Gothic edifice. Painting 
 and sculpture were therefore smiled on by Rome ; but under 
 such patronage, they have been well compared to beautiful 
 captives chained to thechariot-wheels of some Ethiopian divi. 
 nity. But look to the history of other sciences, and Rome 
 has been little better than their jailor. How oftf-n have her 
 police mounted guard at the astronomer's door, and watched 
 even the inspirations of the poet! It was this infallible church 
 which persecuted Harvey for discovering the circulation of 
 the blood ; beat Prinella with rods for saying the stars would 
 not tall J and seven times tortured Camparelia for asserting 
 
 ♦ Wyhe on the Papacy. 
 
 4 
 
74 
 
 THE GRAND CATTSB. 
 
 there wns a multitude of worlds v„« *u- ■ r^ 
 
 which Paul Cullen has iLl T %- ^^'^ '' *^« ''^'"^^ 
 
 manifesto. ,0 pro ounce the v ry iSan 7 ' ' r '""^ ?'"°«''^^^ 
 a church uhich in thp n 1 ? d^ , ""'^ ^'^'''2^'* ofnations ! 
 for snyins here w s « " ' " n'' ""P'r"^^ Columbus 
 Joshua, imprisoned Galiln 7 .km ' ?^ '" ^^« """^^ o<* 
 the earth nCed VVhv shl h K^'"'^.^''^''"^ assertion that 
 to the world's proeress^' T "n^"' ^''" "" -^'^"^ '".pediment 
 
 inoculation cLLecf„ll„fe "^^.'^^^'^'r ^"^^^ ^^ ^^« 
 to bewure of mak na nl^ i ** ^^'"^ ' ^'"'^ ^^"^ surgery 
 
 have hauntcdX X' is I'^V'^V"'''^^^^^ ^^^^'^^ '"«"^- 
 durstnotio'rordV.n.l T ^"'•'"«^ ^"the earth herself 
 
 did, it wo^uld no doubt hav^h ' ' '/"'"'■y ^"°"'''" 'h«n it 
 intrusion. In crmpar son to r'" «"«»';^"'«''^"i for profane 
 lif;ht:-il,ed"4^Krv 1? -'"''; '"^''''''^'^ "^ P^t^o" of 
 
 church" n^'r mj^ Itr.l d'/p '"'-''^^^V ""- 
 authors- Popid, Sua L)nn7!r '"^^^'^^ I''-«i'ce is a land of 
 
 now i„ sepulcl^K '^ ;i; '°"r ""^ '"■" of learning, ,V 
 
 . ty'.c'm S^^V r-^f T '"'"""' "'"■'•'> Ireland groans- 
 
 Ihe infidrl ground to /aT it, 1'^"'"^ "1 'f" "=""■' "■"' ?''" 
 
 ;.S; and Z i:^ Lp™ p: ;tn' r il!': ""'^'o" "' 
 Osirs or Olvmninn Tovo o ^tier can but iJI compare w th 
 
 the 6ubj<c she ha.hllTr fT'"^ u """" '^^ '^««^ ^^"bt on 
 
 fe 
 
 »i 
 
is the church 
 
 his Drogheda 
 izer of nations J 
 fled Columbus 
 the name of 
 5 nsserlion that 
 id impediment 
 loomed to see 
 ^ had surgery 
 pectre monlts 
 ^^e earth, and 
 earih herself 
 e Pope ; and 
 3oner than it 
 i for profane 
 a patron of 
 ihoseof "the 
 
 is a land of 
 amm( danism 
 flourished in 
 foors. Nay, 
 ' being here 
 
 learning, is 
 I from their 
 classic land 
 ?s ; and the 
 
 Tully, now 
 
 id groans, — 
 sm behind, 
 le, and gives 
 tijeece or 
 religion of 
 nipare with 
 sufficiently 
 stem which 
 he energies 
 io deep an 
 d its sable 
 the dials of 
 St doubt on 
 ^ing much 
 ivhich meo 
 
 HOME R. '.,''SES THE MIND. 75 
 
 Of hiM?rr"''n ''"■' ''•' ''Z "f"^"'^ ^■'"-'''^'' "« '^^ very glory 
 
 n o..ks. Her lon^..bur,ed trumpery isexhu.nod ; hor obsolete 
 c. Icmdars are reproduced ; her silliest fooleries ostentat bus v 
 paraded; and St^Lawrence Q-Toolo is invoked in he pu f 
 gathenngs. Yes, and it is the moment when t le vl.olo" 
 vo.M ,s ruslung on at its highest sp. ed, ami Ist the blaze of 
 
 them. ° ^ ' ^'^ '^'■''o ''^" nations after 
 
 CflAPTEil II. 
 
 HOME COIJRUPTS THE CONSCIENCE. 
 
 PohTv '''rrri "'r-'Tr^^bring ruin, and virtue pro. 
 
 w,.» quenched i„ ,he l,oso,n of"m"rcy „, ,ho rll fJ"! "'' 
 l"s enure a.i.ninislralion shoulj aim a H dest ue. - S . 
 
 sho,.,, „ g„a, , |,|„,,, ^„j ,^^ other his grU est cu^e 
 
 ;t™tand th^ r:s^h:r„ j;-^^ a€S5 
 
 ... mu.t be hi, wo« tbs. And yet .he grind ^i^iZt^^^!'. 
 
76 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 Her Principles Fir«jt TUr, j . • 
 
 Chun, the vast majoritv of rnW ^ '"' °^"""'^^ ''''"^ P'-°- 
 serving of a hell a{ I A i,' ^ /'"""''^"''^^^''^''^ '^ bo u..' lo. 
 sufilces to cxpiato them .n^I °f ''"'""'^" "•• "'' P'"'^'">ory 
 
 SMis wbicli remain tl p Ir^n " ''^ ^° '^'^ f^"' ^""-'0/ 
 
 for his church ha pivideTS'"'''"'* T^'-l ''^^' "" ""easinr-.s; 
 not even the v.l't'^ vTS::,:';,^"f ,^-' ''i- "' P'^'''^^"' "'«' 
 own destruction. As on as I. n ' Y''° '' "°^ ^'''" °" '"« 
 confessional, and return as 1:0^"^ ''' '"" ^'^P"''" '" '^'« 
 " at the confessional me?rl[.f f '":^"" '"""'• ^"'^ ^^ 
 
 the road of life, fountains of nti^'v^' '''^'"^^^ ' «" «'°"g 
 vonientdistancs/scaceha^s ^e placed at eon. 
 
 -i>on baptism makefhlm: "fi ',.^r::i:Sl ff^^l ^'^ --b. 
 " due time cleanses the " sins n ' ''"•"?,• ^Confirmation 
 he may partake of t! ^'"'^ «'.'iis youth." Evvrv S-,ndav 
 
 «Wallo^vtf^' vafe/go^'thfr-''^""'' "'^ «°°"- ^"^« ''e 
 And as his v. ;, ,fi wfv thro n ' r? ""'V° '''^ ^'^''^^ >'^ '"'^"^^^d- 
 
 numero,r; ,,i^.,,,ards shn^:. I ^"'^'.'^V^^ possibiltvi those 
 
 only' ma^y the sLe Va r'n-!'^',^''''*'" .Moreover, not 
 future sins. From 'he d^^^v of tI"" /"' T*'' ^"' ''«^" ^« ^r 
 indulgence-shop, The nr wLI r'^"'' "'^^ '^''^'^^ ^'"''^P'^ «" 
 crimes has been br.ht^a, te ' committing the blackest 
 Magus, in his " iSv '' Z" I ?"'""^'' . '^^"«'"'- Simon 
 God with money b^u';reSN^?p'° P'.'''^^''^^'^ the gift of 
 
 ^■-behind, by spelling linTsd'rg^rd"' 'Zf '' '^T '"'" 
 of God have been set un fn o..^.; ^ , , "^ commandmeno 
 ing them sold to ,he hhlst ?m' t '""^"^v of break- 
 needs be the effect of sS ''l ^^' "''^"' ^^hat must 
 
 natureisnotevenleftto sorr'^'^ ^^i^'' P^^-" ^'""^^n 
 himself is made to ho d out n emh^n''"''' i' '^''^^"^'■^«' hut God 
 How is it possible for Popish InnTr """^ ^"f ""ves to sin ? 
 crime, and foul wit^pSon 2 V°'''''''P^^^'"g ''^ ''^^^ 
 do a deed of blood fv ile ^l f"'"' ''''''^ '« tempted to 
 s'rates, reason condemns Ind'^tT'"'- ''°"«^'>"«e '•err^on- 
 f'-ovvnson,hehalftwdVsil nr'"?, ^''l''' ^'•'"'^'•^ 
 
 I 
 
ble burden, 
 ;ls. 
 
 il sins pro. 
 o bo undo. 
 ' piirijdiory 
 itly niiti^^a. 
 few viorlal 
 neasinfss; 
 iirdon, that 
 K'Ht on liis 
 lair to the 
 '. Nor is 
 
 all along 
 d lit con. 
 h(! Womb, 
 ifiiination 
 y Sunday 
 " does he 
 renewed. 
 
 guarded, 
 lubricate 
 Ityi these 
 realms of 
 over, not 
 Dcuie for 
 urope an 
 
 blackest 
 Simon 
 
 gift of 
 ave him 
 ndmenis 
 f break, 
 lat must 
 
 human 
 but God 
 fo sin ? 
 'd with 
 pted to 
 remon- 
 grimly 
 r ray of 
 spers a 
 
 ROME CORRUPTS THE CONSCIENCE. 77 
 
 spve're"rn77T'"i"^ .'""•'"'ity-tells him, that if man is 
 nn I ' V"^'',"','""'' '' >ndulg*.nt, and has empow.-r,.! him to 
 P'.Mon heda.kest crimes that .v-.r jndge ion.lo.nne and 
 s nd .o heaven the foulest crin.inal that tver j.s.ic! m^m to 
 
 f.bi'J n Y ' "' '^ T^""'"'^ '^'■^'"'•'' ? T'-n is all historv 
 a fable Deeds have been done beneath Rome's foste n^ 
 
 shade, from which even corrupt nature r^ ; t^e dit 
 
 power has often had to protect public virtue I e ecc' 
 
 «st,ca ; and m.quity has often fled to the pnost for she t r" 
 
 f eTe o^r'onhTb' "T^ 'T' '' ''T'"'y 'y "'^' "'^-^-" 
 conf-elTn' f I ""''• .^r ''"y '''^ f""'^'-'^' a.ln,oni.shes him 
 confessing ?-what cares hr- for all his Iretures if pardon forms 
 tieclosm. se,)tence? Nou, surely this alone wo id ^ 
 o ently „ce.,.nt for Ireland's erowd.'d jails and loadecl c l." 
 dar.. B miest wo should wrong this system, let us turn for 
 a moment from its principles to its ])ractice. 
 
 will of course, bo found m its ministers. They are a^ onco 
 s exponen.s and exan.ples. In them it lives and brea he 
 
 "' c r.^.P. '7i,''"'' '^'"" .t'ood or Inul, this alone stan.ps 
 
 m tbn % r"" '^''7" ' '""^ '''' '""«'' 'ill S-apesgrow 
 
 tl.n s and fi-,s on thistles. Besides, it is reasonable to 
 
 iiimk that Christ s ministers should be Christ-Iike-that the 
 
 soivants of the Holy One should th. ,„selves be holy- spe 
 
 c ally If their very work is th. spread of holiness!^ VVouW 
 
 . be monstrous to suppose that the ihriee-holy Jehovah 
 
 np •" dno In-sT '"'^ "'"" ^'■"'" ^^"^"^ ^■'•-^'y -'-■•*'« 
 mM u hn r '"' '""^ "''''"'"*' **' " ^"^''W'/'/e* to his flock," 
 
 men who are a disirrnce to h.iman nature ? Do we not find 
 
 thVmoT;"^-''',"'^ '"^P-P'-'^ -"' apostles w:.;.' f 
 
 Ghost?'' y "''"'^'' "^"" "^^"'^'' "'"' ^^^the Holy 
 
 Now, what is the character of the Irish priest ? Surely he 
 
 must be the purest of men who is admitted daily to G^d's 
 
 mmst pavilion, to learn the seer ,s of the invisible world to 
 
 ;'rn' V '"1""^'^ ^'',^: '"■>'^' "'"' ^^'^'^ '^- ^'^^-''«- of l' .1 
 of hi. M 'l" "!^'"!P'"^« "t.""' "'« ^^0%' «oul, and divinity 
 of his Maker. At Last, of all minisM-s he d,o,M be tZ 
 
 ijyjl Ills vnyfl ^^r thr» rvi-'frm"- -i * < 
 
 r,o,.„..- .1 • "if^ f.Moteiic-- ut a purijatorv, whether iiis 
 
 parent is there, whether he is escaping', o,^ ^vhl: he elcapes ; 
 
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 nor no other guarantee but his faithfnlnrss for the ri^ht nor- 
 lormance of those ceremonies on which his own eternal safety 
 hanp All depends up..n the priest ;— the divine authority 
 of he '' church on his veracity-the salvation of ti)e people 
 on his fidelity. In a word, on the man's single shoulders r.'st 
 the tremendous responsibilities which attach to the keepcrship 
 of the gates of heaven. Would you not expect such a man 
 to be as bright a saint as Noah, Daniel,or Job— to be the very 
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 ready seen a liitle of bis character— how he can handle the 
 horsewlup, and burn the Bible. And let the reader remember, 
 that ol Ins conduct in these matters we have given the most 
 meagre samples. Such an everyday afluir, for instance, is 
 priestly opposition to the Bible, that if you ask the children 
 . ot our mission-schools who hates it most, they answer, "The 
 devil ; and if you ask. Who next to the devil, they at once 
 reply, " The priest?"* Even the American ambassador, on 
 bis late visit of kmdness, could not allude to the blessings that 
 volume had conferred on his own glorious country, buT fjrth 
 comes a growl from St. Jarluths, and the Popish pupers sup. 
 press the sentiment. • i i i 
 
 But we have other charges still to prefer. There are few 
 precepts of the decalogue with which the Irisli priest has not 
 taken liberties. Profane sweariiiir, that lowest of vices con- 
 lined to the very cauuil/e, that vernacular of the rin<r and the 
 cock-pit, IS by no means uncommon amongst them." One of 
 our missionaries, who met a priest on a MvYioA committee in 
 1H4<, was o[)lige.l to threaten him with exposure if he did not 
 d-sist from blaspheming ; and never was it the author's lot to 
 listen to such a torrent of oaths as Priest Timlin poured forth 
 during the not at Ballymaciola. Yes, and though his entire 
 con.luct on that occasion was the theme of every newspaper 
 not a whisper of disapproval was ever known to be bi-eathed 
 by priest or bishop over broad In land. His brethren clun-r 
 nround bun during his whole trial ; and to this hour he re" 
 joices in the uiuliminished sunshine of his own diocesan's 
 lavor. 
 
 We far we can .say as little for the temperance of the 
 Irish priesthood. Indeed, the '-jolly pri^'st" is a stereotvped 
 phraso amongst us; and the se. nrs which are so„ieiimes 
 enacted amongst these reverend syiiipnsiasts, arc said to be of 
 
 * Gregg's " Vi.it 10 i'.nh," p. 34. 
 
ROME CORRUPTS THE CONSCIENCE. 
 
 79 
 
 the most extraordinary description. On such occasions, not 
 much respect is shown for the glasses or decanters, and some- 
 times little more for each other. We have it on the host 
 authority, that a dance on the table is nothin<r new, and that 
 even to be under the table, is by no means uncommon. Nor 
 do they always confine themselves to midnight convivialities ; 
 the sun often looks on their frailties ; and tlieir flocks have 
 occasionally to help thom home from a fair. In the op«n 
 street of Killalla. one of them in this deplorable state got hold 
 of the Rev. Mr. Rogers, and actually kissed him, as the pre- 
 tace to some request he was going to make ! 
 
 Again, a disregard of truth has been an old feature of Rome. 
 To her belongs an entire order, who have " reduced scheming 
 to a system., and wear the mask by rule ;" who unblnshingly 
 avow that not only truth, but every other moral obligation, 
 must yield to the " interests of the church :" and the immortal 
 Pascal has taught us how well they have exemplified this 
 iniquitous doctrine. There is not a crime in the dark lists of 
 perdition, that the "Society o^ Jesus" have not over and over 
 again committed, for the glory of God and the good of men's 
 sjuls ! Yet the Jesuits are Rome's best-beloved agents ; and 
 numberless bulls and decrees demonstrate how generally she 
 -has practised their tenets. That meanest of vices, lying, — 
 that grand auxiliary of all other vices ; of which the UevU is, 
 by preeminence, called " the father ;" and to be charged with 
 M'hicli even worldly men count the foulest insult ; has been 
 the favorite vice of the infallible church. From her earliest 
 days to this very hour, when she has just absolved Joseph of 
 Austria and Ferdinand of Naples from their most solemn oaths 
 to their subjects, oaths have been but straws to Rome ; she 
 has laughed at the most sacred pledges, and in almost all hor 
 standards, from the decrees of the Lateran to the class-bor^'ks 
 of Maynooth, h is openly taught that truth must never stand 
 in the way of the " church's" interests. Here is, perhaps, 
 the worst feature of the system, indicating but too clearly its 
 paternity. You see it in its every doctrine — nnough of truth 
 to make its lies go down with the ignorant. You see it in all 
 its practice — seldom Uie flit lie, but one masked beneath some 
 shuflle or quibble, designed as a loophole in case of detection. 
 Instance her denial, in the face of all fact, that she forbids the 
 us'^ of the Scriptures, on the miserable plea, that any one m ly 
 read them who has a license from his priest! instance th^ 
 pitiful Jesuitism of the Popish bishop of Clifton, in the case of 
 
60 
 
 THE ORAND CAtSe. 
 
 Miss Talbot, nnd of Wi.srmnn liimsolf, in the matter of the 
 canJinul s oatli, as trioroughly exposed by Dr. Cunin.in.r. 
 indeed, the briizm audacity with nhich the Popish priests ciTn 
 put forth the grossest untruths, could r^carcelv be credited by 
 those who do not know them. Priest Walsh; of the glens of 
 Antrinr), cursed from the altar the miller already noticed, and 
 several others, for nctit.g as Irish teachers j and vet, immedi- 
 ately after, proclaimed through all Scotland tlia't there was 
 not an Irish teacher in ;hat wholn neighborhood ! In the case 
 of the Mdtown riots, not only did the parish priest publish in 
 the papers the grossest untruths ; but the atlcrncv for the de- 
 fence, who himself had no peculiar interest in the'malter, sent 
 the Cork Examiner a report of the trial, containinr' at least 
 riFTY falsehofxis, and in which, besides a long speech ^rom 
 himself which had never been spoken, he makes several wit- 
 nesses depose to the reverse of what they actually did swear. 
 Yet even these are but trifles. It is a common remark in 
 ^•eland, that no Popish jury will convict a Popish priest, nor 
 Roman Catholic witness testify against him ; and not much 
 wonder, if he can sf'iid them to ht-aven or hell at his pleasure. 
 in the trial of Priest Timlin, one unhappy wretch, vhon beino- 
 sworn, was detected putting the book to 'his chin, in the belief 
 that, if he could o.yo\(\ kissing \{, he was not sworn at all. 
 Another swore, first, that ho could speak no English, then, 
 that Mr. Johnston, who could speak no Irish, had a loner con- 
 versation with him about attending the service at IJii'Unm- 
 ciola! The charge against the prii>st was estabi' so 
 
 c early, that the barrister, himself a Roman Cathoii nilo 
 cbargmg the jury, administered to him the severest casti-'i- 
 tion, assuming, as a matter of course, that he would be con- 
 victed ; yet the jury, in the full knowledge „j all the ilicts 
 before they entered the box at all—for the'outrage took place 
 in the neighborlioo<I— at once aeqiiiltrd tlie prisoner. Nay, 
 what is still more instructive, this was universally expected 
 before the trial commenced at all. " As soon as 'l see who 
 the jury are,' said a Roman Catholic attorney, en'ra.rcd in 
 the prosecution, to the aullior, " Til tell you wfiether%-ou'lI 
 get a verdict; and the instant th-y wero sworn he whispend 
 again, " You may n7,-?a) up you:- nilnd you'll get no verdict!" 
 It is needless here to speak of the blessin^s^of the Sai)ba'lh 
 —that heavenly iiutitulion so worthy of (.iod and benrficiiil 
 to man. It is enough to say, tiiat wlieiover it is abolished, 
 true religion expires. The system, iherefGre, that would de. 
 
 W 
 
I 
 
 ittcr of the 
 Cumiiiing. 
 pn'rsts caa 
 credited by 
 be glons of 
 Jticc'fl, and 
 ;t, immedi- 
 ihcre was 
 [n the case 
 publish in 
 for tlie de- 
 alter, sent 
 g at least 
 occli from 
 !verul wit. 
 Jid Hwcur, 
 •eniurk in 
 "■icst, nor 
 not much 
 pleasure, 
 hen being 
 the belief 
 rn at all. 
 ish, then, 
 long eoii- 
 ijii'U-ri)a. 
 i so 
 
 i , iiilo 
 t ca.sti;.a- 
 d be con- 
 the facts 
 Jok place 
 r. Nay, 
 e.xpocteJ 
 see who 
 L?aged in 
 er you'i! 
 hiypcrc (1 
 •enlict !" 
 Sahba:h 
 'enrJlcial 
 bolishcd, 
 ould de. 
 
 ROME CORHUPTS THE CONSCIENCE. 
 
 61 
 
 Btroy 01 weaken its obligations deals a fatal stab to the best 
 interests of man. Yet by the priesthood of Ireland the first 
 day of the. week is made the hack of the other six. If there 
 is to be any political meeting, the Sabbath is preferred as be- 
 ing an idle day. At a great " Sunday Demonstration" held 
 in Tipperary in 1847, Archdeacon Latfan ridiculed the hy. 
 pocrisy of some who had sutlicient conscience left to decline 
 attending on that day. And the largest procession we ever 
 beheld, got up to welcome O'Connell to Cork after his victory 
 in the State prosecutions, and reckoned to contain seventy 
 thousand individuals, took place on the Lord's day, by the 
 appointment of the priests ; and in order to give the entire day 
 to it, they announced on the previous Sabbath, that mass usu- 
 ally over at noon would that day end at eight in the morning. 
 "We have seen a priest in Connaught coolly superintending 
 his laborers in the field on the Sabbath. And another in the 
 same province, not only publicly advertised the auction of his 
 crops for that day, but actually held a rafflr in his chapel after 
 " Sunday mass," having previously distributed lottery tickets 
 of which the following is a copy : — " To be raffled by the 
 Rev. Arthur O'Dwyer at Athenry, on Sunday the 18th of 
 May, 1851, a beautiful lever watch. The proceeds of the 
 raffle to go to the repaid of the Newcastle chapel. Tickets, 
 one shilling each ! !" 
 
 So much has been said by others on priestly violations of 
 the seventh commandment, that we are disposed to omit that 
 branch of our mournful subject. The first revealed remark 
 ever made on man by God was, " It is not good for man to be 
 alone," and all experience proclaims its infinite justness. We 
 cannot imagine a more satanic device than that which cuts off 
 the Romish clergy from the softening and refining intercourse 
 of woman. But if there is anything in their church worse 
 than celibacy, it is tlie diabolic contiivance of the confessional. 
 That single device sends its blasting influence in all directions, 
 and in none more fearfully than in tliat of the priest himself 
 Oh, how that man is to be pitied who is continually exposed 
 to the corruptions of the confession-box, and whose mind is 
 the very cesspool into which the abominations of a whole par- 
 ish are constantly ruiming ! But if even one of these devices 
 is so dreadful, what must be the combined influence of both ? 
 Think of a young, full, hot-blooded priest daily encounterina 
 in his confession- box trembling youth and beauty, perhaps 
 some one in particular, the poison of whooc cy^s lie may have 
 
 4* 
 
I I . 
 
 82 
 
 THE GRAND CATTSE. 
 
 unconsciously innbibod, find wbojn, if he (lured, he would mnke 
 lii.s virtuous wWc. " I will suppose In'm a siiint — iinaljle to 
 fly, ho apparently groans, si^hs, rccoinmiMids himself to God ; 
 but if he is only a man, he shudders, desires, und already 
 without knowing it, perhaps lie hopes. She arrives, kneels 
 down at his knees hefore him, wiiose heart pal|)itates. You 
 are young, or you have been so; between ourselves, what do 
 you think of such a situation? Alone most of th(^ time, and 
 hiiving these walls, these vaulted roofs as solo witnesses, tliey 
 talk — of what ? Alas, of all that is not innocent. They talk 
 or rather murmur in low voice, und their lips approach each 
 other, and their hreaths tninifle. This lasts for an hour or 
 more, and is often renewed"* And the suhject of conversa- 
 tion, such as could not elsewhere be hinted at ! 'I'he priest 
 bound to put suggestive questions enough to pollute even an- 
 gelic purity, and the penitent bound to answer them ; the 
 Romish doctors having ruled that concealment from a motive 
 *' so vain" as modesty " would be sacrilege. "f All this done 
 in the name of holiness! VVIiy, lo say that corrupt nature 
 could stand such an ordeal, outrages common sense. To say 
 that it has done so belies all history. From the pontiff to the 
 coa<ljutor, the priesthood of Rome have in all ages revelled in 
 dehauchery. The Vatican has been turned into a seraglio ; 
 nnd as for the humble cure, lu"s flock has ofieu compelled him 
 to live in concubinage as a protection to society ! While nun- 
 neries — those "sacred retreats" from which, according to 
 M'Hale, "the odor of sanctity and virtue is dilFused" — have 
 ever been such scenes of pollution, that even so late as 1845, 
 Mr. Seymour found that four nuns were enceinte in one con- 
 vent at Rome :}: Can we imagine then, that the Irish priest, 
 his brethren's equal in all other vices, should be their supe- 
 rior in this alone ? Alas, despite a system of secrecy fearfully 
 perfect, their impurity to» often transpires, hut for the sake 
 of a country which, notwithstanding their corrupting influence, 
 still bears a high character for chastity, we refuse to lift the 
 veil. 
 
 ^ 
 
 -^ ' -> 
 
 • Paul Lewis Courrier. 
 
 t Not only r)ens but Dflaliogiie niid Bnilly, Maijiwolli's rccngtiizcd 
 clais-liOdks, coninin qiiPirtidns so I'xccnible th;it no niiin of the leiiet dcli- 
 cncv ('(nild ri'|ie;it ilifin. Dens, vols. i.,iv.,vii., pa:<.<!iiii ; Unilly, ii. pp. 
 2:2s, 22'J, iv. p. 4t3 ; Di'iuhogue, Tract. De Ten,, pp. 164, IGi). 
 
 t Pi!grimnge lo Rome, p. 1S7. 
 
'ould make 
 -iirmljlf! to 
 MftoGofl; 
 1(1 alroiuly 
 .'(;s, kripols 
 itf'S. You 
 's, what Ho 
 
 tiriio, and 
 f'sses, thoy 
 Tli-y talk 
 roiicli each 
 in hour or 
 r con versa- 
 The priest 
 ( even an- 
 them ; the 
 Ti a tTiotive 
 11 this flone 
 upt nature 
 i. To say 
 ntifT to the 
 revelled in 
 
 seratrlio ; 
 pelled him 
 ^Vhile nun- 
 cording to 
 nd" — iiave 
 e as 1845, 
 n one con- 
 nsh priest, 
 heir supe- 
 y fearfully 
 )r the sake 
 ' influence, 
 to lift the 
 
 recognized 
 le If iist dt'li- 
 Inilly, ii. pp. 
 Gi). 
 
 4 -"• 
 
 ROME CORRUPTS THL CONSCIENCE. 
 
 88 
 
 In truth, we are weary of the suhject, and shall only add, 
 that on the Irish priesthood are directly chargeahle many of 
 those outrages which disgrace our country. Many a man 
 besides Major Malum lias proved the victim of altar harangues; 
 nnd wiiile the wretched dupes of priestly instigation have 
 perished on the scatJbld, and now sleep in the grave of infamy, 
 those who in heaven's eyes are the real murderers still walk 
 at large and disturb the country. Our missionaries are often 
 obliged to prosecute their poor dupes fur outrage; and yet 
 while doing so, are painfully sensible that they are not touch- 
 ing the real culprits; they "feel the presence of the priest like 
 the great tempter in every scene of riot they encounter, yet 
 like him he is invisible and eludes their grasp! Keeping 
 always out of *' shot range" himself, his part is to instigate — 
 that of his flock to do and sutler, lustance the abortive rebel- 
 lion of li-<48. For with all their zeal, the Irish priests have 
 never shown much taste for fines and imprisonments, and 
 seem in no wise ambitious for the honors of martyrdom. 
 Assassination itself, they have all but lauded. Archdeacon 
 Laffan, in the meeting aforementioned, pronounced " John 
 Bull" too great a coward to shoot a man from behind a hedge ; 
 and when the altar denunciations of '47 became so frequent 
 as to engage the attention of parliament, and draw forth some 
 letters toM'Halefrom KngMsh noblemen, he not only defended 
 his priests in characteristic terms, but called on one of the 
 writers to put on sackcloth for daring to interfere, and to 
 •' weep between the porch and the altar." Now, who that 
 considers the power of the priesthood can wonder at the 
 crimes which follow such conduct, or doubt that if they so 
 pleased our country would enjoy tranquility ? It was in this 
 full conviction that when, in the above-mentioned year, acer. 
 lain district began to be disturbed, some of the people met and 
 resolved, that it any belonging to it was shot, they would 
 Khoot the priest bv way of reprisal. The effect was surpris- 
 ing. No more thutufer pealed from the altar — no more 
 threatening letters reached the post-office— the happiest change 
 seemed to have come over priest and people — and tranquility 
 reigned in the parish ! 
 
 Such, then, is a brief sketch of the Irish priesthood. We 
 
 have no doubt its correctness will be impugned : hut this will 
 
 only be an additional proof of our charge, that Rome will deny 
 
 anythiniT when it suits her purpose. In ignorant circles, her 
 
 ests have been known to deny the existence of the Inqui. 
 
84 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 sition, ond to pronounce the Bartholomew niassacre a vile 
 Blunder. Douhiless many of the Irisii priests are moral men, 
 eNpcciulIy in I'rotcHtunt districts j for Home distributes her 
 troops with cortsuinmute skill ; and as she has ever had her 
 MurruyH fur the court, and her M'Hules lor the mob, so has 
 slie alwuyH'usuignc'd her more upright priests to the Protes- 
 tant loculilicH, and those of more dubious character to the 
 Popiah. IJut to the foregoing statements we defy contradic- 
 tion, uiid none know this better than themselves. Why should 
 this Bketuh he deemed incorrect? Are the priesthood of any 
 other land much better ; and are they not worse where the 
 fihado of Popery is the deepest ? Rome, its capital, has ever 
 been a don of priestly corruption, and the " Vicars of Christ" 
 have boon foremost in guilt. Baronius, himself a cardinal, 
 dtclarett that they " were not pontiffs, but monsters ;" and 
 proves tho charge by facts with which we must not pollute 
 our pag<.'«. In the "church's" palmiest days, the priests 
 enjoyed exemption from the dominion of the laws, and verily 
 they roquirod it j for crimes that would shock the modern 
 crimhuvf daily stained their hands; while such monsters as 
 Alexander VI. and Caisar Borgia made the palace of the pon- 
 tifTs a sink of abomination, in which incest, sodomy, and mur- 
 der were of frequent occurrence. 
 
 The People. — If such are the pastors, what must be their 
 flocks 1 No stream rises higher than its fountain ; and the 
 inspired aphorism, *' Like people like priest," is sustained by 
 all experience. Indeed, it is pre-eminently true of the Church 
 of Rome ; iijr while in other churches the pastor is only one 
 instrument of grace, in her he is its sole dispenser — the only 
 channel of the waters of life ; and if that channel is poisoned, 
 his flock huvo no chance of escape. In our chapter on Ire- 
 land'ii Moral State, wo have seen how sadly this is verified in 
 her case. And will the kind reader pardon us if, for the sake 
 of a people who have so long borne the blame which should 
 have rested on their blind guides, we decline returning to the 
 subject, farther than by giving two examples — the one of the 
 frequency, the other of the atrocity, of crime amongst us ? 
 He will remember that the district of Cashel is amongst the 
 most Popish in Ireland. A few years ago, the following 
 j aragraph a|)pearcd in the papers under the usual heading, 
 " State of the Country :"— " The Cashel Bench of Magis- 
 'j RATES.— »Thfi foUnwing have been the gentlemen who, witihin 
 
 ^' 
 
 k 
 
BOMB COnRCPTfl THE CONSCIENCE. 
 
 86 
 
 ssacre a vile 
 e moral men, 
 stributes her 
 ever had her 
 
 mob, so has 
 :o the Protes- 
 racter to the 
 ry contradic- 
 
 Why should 
 sthood of any 
 se where the 
 ital, has ever 
 ra of Christ" 
 f a cardinal, 
 jsters;" and 
 it not pollute 
 , the priests 
 s, and verily 
 
 the modern 
 
 monsters as 
 :e ofthe pen- 
 ny, and mur- 
 
 nust be tlieir 
 in ; and the 
 sustained by 
 ■f the Church 
 is only one 
 jr — the only 
 1 is poisoned, 
 ipter on Ire- 
 is verified in 
 ', for the sake 
 'hich should 
 arning to the 
 le one of the 
 imongst us ? 
 amongst the 
 ^e following 
 ual heading, 
 H OF Magis- 
 who, witihin 
 
 the last few years, usually attondi-d iIiIh bench :— R. Long, 
 father shot, himself twiuo fire.! at ; VV. Murphy, father shot ; 
 S. Cooper, brother shot; liconard Kcatinge, nephew of Mr. 
 Scully, shot; E. Scully, eounin of Mr. Scully, shot; God- 
 frey Taylor, cousin of Mr. Clarke, shot ; William Rowe, shot ; 
 C. Clark, brother shot; nephew, Mr. Howe, shot!" Again, 
 amongst the cases tried by the special commission of 1847, 
 was that of a party who went to the house of a man named 
 Hourigan, in order to shoot him. He was absent ; but the 
 ruffians, instead of retiring and wailing for another opportu- 
 nity, shot his wife dead in the kitchen. A child lay dying in 
 the room ; they entered, dragged him out of bed, held him up 
 against the wall, and — unmoved by the pleadings of terror, 
 unsoftened by the pallor of sickness, unawed by the presence 
 of death — they presented a pistol, and sliot him dead on tho 
 spot ! ! 
 
 Perhaps you say, such wretches, though professed Roman 
 Catholics, were without the tmle of their church. Sup- 
 pose we granted this, it would only prove what all history 
 confirms, that there is a point in Rome's demoralizing course 
 at which she loses hold of hvr own votaries — that in her 
 dreadful process of social putnifaction there is a stage at 
 which portion after portion Hloughs and comes olF, The 
 brigands and sbirri that infest the towns and mountains of 
 Italy herself are terrible proofs of this truth. But we cannot 
 grant even this supposition, for crimes have been sometimes 
 concocted on the way from the clia|H;l. Nay, devotion and 
 rnurder have occasionally so closely fI)llowed each other, that, 
 like the Thug of India, the assiissin has prepared for the deed 
 by repairing to the altar, and, us Mr. Nolan has proved, often 
 confessed to the priest the meditated crinje, and Ihence departed 
 to commit it; and to crown all, tho priest's vow of secrecy 
 has hindered him from giving the doomed victim the least inti- 
 mation of his danger.* Uesides, it h notorious that most of 
 all our petty offences — larcenies, for instance — are the work 
 of mass-going Roman Catholics, and are duly confessed to the 
 priest; yet, though wo are told Rome always requires the 
 penitent to restore tho stolen profierty, how few cases of resti- 
 tution are ever heard of amongst thousands of cases of theft ! 
 The only parties who seem to prolit by the trade, are the thief 
 who steals and the party who lorgives him. 
 
 *See several fearful coses of ihwkiiid in Rtv. I,. J. Nnli.n's pamphlet. 
 Dublin: 1B38. 
 
 f- 
 
86 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 Such arc the mom] fruits of Popery ! Ilodgod round with 
 with iimlijrri influnncos— kept in such iLrnonmco that many of 
 their sins they do not even known to be such, vou would'suy 
 vice WHS witli our countrymen a tiii.irf of monil nccesriitv. 
 And can it be equity to assert the "majesty of British law" 
 on such degraded creatures, and pass by the men wfTo arc 
 cliargeahle with tiiis degradation ? Oh, one wouhl think mere 
 humanity wouhl liasten to the rescue of a people so iramph>d 
 beneath the feet of the Beast. The wail of tlie emigrant who 
 is torn from liis house appeals to Cliristian pity against it. 
 Every bugle that sounds from its hundred barracks tellg 
 iieaven and earth of the ruin it has wrought. The blood alike 
 of murdered and murderer cries to heaven for vengeance on it. 
 The dying groans of multitudes, as they rise on^ the wintry 
 winds, tell of its dreadful havoc. The throes of an expiring 
 country bear awful testimony to its deadly venom. And, oli^ 
 what thousands of ruined souls will rise up in judgment 
 against it at the last ! 
 
 CMAPTliR III. 
 
 n 1 
 
 iJ i 
 
 ROME DESTROVS THE HEART. 
 
 Man has a heart ; and what a dismal world it would be if 
 ho had not ! Now, mark how wonderfully the God who made 
 it adapts his laws to it, or rather it to them. " God is love," 
 and his religion is love. Its grand theme is — " God so loved 
 the world," &g. Its divine founder is the loving Saviour, 
 " who loved us, and gave himself for us." Its great com. 
 inand is — love one another ; and its heavenly influence is such, 
 that none can fully practise it wiihout becnminfj angels of 
 kindness. On the other hand, all false systems a"re cniel as 
 their author. Their gods are demons ; their rites often tor. 
 tures; their priests oppressors; their arguments, the swonl ; 
 while their code often teaches men to expiate their crimes bv 
 crimes still greater, and their dark domains are " full of the 
 habitations of cruelty." 
 
 If, therefore, we find that Rome withers the heart ; if, in- 
 stead of inspiring love, she has rather proved its very sepul- 
 chre, mingling bh^ofl itself with her sacrifices; if hers is a 
 gad who delights in the pilgrim's bh'stered feet and bleediu'j 
 knees, a s.-rvicc .which has borrowed many of tlio turtures of 
 
nOME DESTROYS TnE HEART. 
 
 87 
 
 round witli 
 liiit many of 
 I would siiy 
 1 necessity. 
 {I'itisli law" 
 fii wlTo nro 
 1 think morfl 
 so tramplcil 
 ligrant wlio 
 
 against it. 
 'racks tfllg 
 ! blood alika 
 cance on it. 
 tlin wintry 
 an pxpirinij 
 And, oh, 
 1 judgment 
 
 ivould bn if 
 I who made 
 >d is lovo," 
 od so loved 
 g Saviour, 
 j^reat com. 
 ice is such, 
 r anrrols of 
 ro cruel as 
 often tor. 
 :he sword ; 
 crimes bv 
 full of the 
 
 irt ; if, in- 
 ery sepul- 
 f hers is a 
 il l)]epdinir 
 lorlurcs of 
 
 ■] 
 
 par^nni-^m, and a spirit which transforms men, not only info 
 stones, but demons — then again is she convicted as the enemy 
 of (jrod atid man. 
 
 Love to God. — Ijove to Clod is the " first coinmandment ;" 
 that church therefore caimot be His which makes it not her 
 first object. Now, a very simple test of a church's real 
 spirii, is her treatment of His " means of grace :" instance 
 the Hible — the Sal)l»ath — and prayer. The child, in propor- 
 tion as he loves his parent, will of course love to hear from 
 liim, to visit him, and to linger in his presence. Wcdl, wo 
 have seen how Rome treats the Divine Word. So frequent 
 are her Bible burnings, that almost every paper gives some 
 fresh instances. In the " Mayo Cnnstilulion" of the 2.')tli 
 November, IS.'Jl, the Rev. Mr. Townsend of Ballyf)vee, re- 
 ports the burning of two Testaments in his own presence by 
 a monk, and adds, that "the ruHian thrust the burning book 
 into his face, triumphing over his dark deed of iniciuity, and 
 calling it a •damnable' and ' heretical' book." The iJibie ! 
 that divine message of love from our Father in the skies, 
 pored over by thousands with tears of ecstasy ! Oh, fancy a 
 son hunting like a demon for his father's letters, then making 
 a iionfire of them, raving the while against all who dare mur- 
 mur disapproval, and yet pretending to love that father ! 
 
 We have also seen how Rome treats the Sabbath. That 
 blessed day, so ardently loved by every true saint, is to her 
 so irksome that she cannot even pay it a dec(nt outward 
 respect. It is to her such a bore, that it is generally over by 
 noon, — that is, when the mass is concluded, — and the remain- 
 der of the day is given up to . i.,usement. In purely Popish 
 countries, the evening is spent in fetes and theatricals ; in our 
 01C71, often in dancing and card-playing — the priests them- 
 selves mingling in the scene. And one of them wiio was 
 lately rebuked for his profanation, coolly replied, that rest and 
 recreation were the very design of that day, and a " little 
 innocent amusement" he saw no harm in ? Was there ever 
 clearer proof of Rome's spirit than this ? The wicked say, 
 *' When will the Sabbath be gone ?" the believer says, " When 
 will it return?" and each following his tastes, sfjends it, the 
 one in his Father's service, and the other in his. Yet here is 
 a "church of Ciod" which has ever taken the lead in the 
 ranks of Sabbath-breakers. 
 
 Tukt! one other example. Prayer, the saint's deligiii, is 
 
60 
 
 TBB 6RAND CAUSE. 
 
 Konio's most usual 
 an; dealt out by PnMa| Unmr* ^' ^'''"'>' Confession prnypra 
 Pagan, in .ons.'twolail ' !: ^rf., "-^ 'o be I'y £:,[: 
 
 f'o that you H-illsootliousa ,Ho/n , '"' ." ''"'"'''"• o''J"C't. 
 
 «oon they could get done ^, iff V"' "'"^''' ""^''-K bo^v 
 not utter one prayer bevnml ""'' ' '"'^ "'"t 'bey ninv 
 
 tbo exact "coSnt^'poVtS'tar"''^"' """'--' ^^-5 
 for tbi.s vory purpose rol ' ^~"'*'' "»vention contr vcd 
 penance of LL Tand it^sl 7/- ^'"'l-' ^< "'«"' "the 
 sin most monstrous-whir hV ^''''^'"^ ^''^ P""«nce~ tseJf n 
 otber sins I OnlyVan y ^Vhite '' ''^ ^'^""^-"■- '^r H 
 parent his greatest punLn'e and '^ '""^^'•'« ^''h '-is 
 
 That God who'.Z^'rerwC^^ "' "^" - ^^«-^. 
 
 ten Son," « vvithouf mone^and ^w/thn. .° •'^"^^ '"'-^ ""'^ '^^Rot- 
 his .nuusters '• freely to give as^evh '''■''"/ T'^<^'n^'nLs 
 « represented as niaking^h L o 1 ho^ ^'^ .^''''^ received," 
 di«e," and give nothing^ w ^"1.^/' ^''°"^^"'" "'^'-^ha^. 
 f elf is made a system^ of tr dlin i^l ■^['' 9"'' S«'vation 
 
 rency. grace the commod7ty,^e;it r";"'\ ^'^''^ '^ '^' '^^' 
 the salesman. For to Rome Ll.n 1"''°^' «"^ ''^e Pnest 
 
 eovery that in J.eaven as on ea th^f. '^^ ^''°'>' ^^ "'« 'i'- 
 thmgs." Without it vou nPP?? ' J^'"^^^ ansueroth all 
 
 have got indulgenc sCrm derT'' ''"^«' '^"^ vvith it men 
 accustomed are the people oly i oT.l?'" ^^-^^"^^ ' ""^ so 
 have sometimes asked m.r\f-^- ".^" occasions, that thov 
 With them-.. But sir Xt S^rT "^"" "^°"' »« P "T 
 chapel is to be repaired hi ^ " ''^''''S^ "» ?" VVhen a 
 
 day morning with semir i ^T' "'^ °^'^" ^^"t on tl e Sun 
 Jowed to enfer Z^Z^CTaT' ,t' ''^"'' ^^ "-« a t 
 
 for masses for the iul'of"w '^^ '^^ '""^^' '^^ «ach Velli 
 pJate goes round, the "If otn a':"'"' ^^ ''''^ ---a 
 contributor give.s not according ol.t°"'P°"^J"^ " ' ^"^ ^ach 
 oAenmostliherally^husedrCi-XSai^ri^^^^ 
 
 C^^- [55!;^ rS-^-- to a scene of .his ver, ,escHp.io„ i„ 
 
ROME DESTH0V3 THE HEART. 
 
 to 
 
 ^ssi'on prayera 
 to be by lionie 
 iifiiilar ol)j(.ct. 
 "'!« ovortlieir 
 ;'!» trying |,ow 
 llmt they may 
 "ber, kepping 
 lion contrived 
 h thon, is the 
 ince— itself ft 
 iction for nil 
 rse with bis 
 is dreadfully 
 
 I ns slavery. 
 ^ only begot- 
 d commund.s 
 received," 
 ii' nierchan- 
 
 Salvation 
 is the cur. 
 'd the priest 
 of the dis. 
 iwercth all 
 w'ith it men 
 Its ; and so 
 s, that they 
 >ut to pray 
 
 When a 
 1 the Sun- 
 d none al. 
 nself per. 
 ind freely 
 n'buiing.* 
 ; at Wed- 
 li funeral 
 ' cases a 
 i if each 
 ns, he is 
 le scenes 
 
 n'piioD in 
 
 of this natiiro, wliieh urr frequently rnnctod ntthe very pnivo, 
 that tlif-y have l)y the vulgar been called " canting tho corpse." 
 In .sluifl, 1)0 the HiTvicc what it may, whotlir-r at the baptismal 
 ii)Mt, the hymeneal altar, the dying bed, or the gloomy grave, 
 the lir)rseleech is there, crying, "Give, give." On '(.•very 
 )!:ile of the road of life ihrre is a toll-gate, ay, and bevotid it 
 too. As has been truly said, their people pay for cotni'iij. into 
 the world, pay for passing through it, pay for going out of it, 
 and pay after they leave it ! And so lucrative is thit; last de- 
 vice alone to an avaricious priesthood, that purgatorv has 
 been sareastieally termed, " the fire that makes their pot boil." 
 Oh, Siriioji Magus was discovered to be " in the gal) of bitter- 
 iiess" (or " supposing that the gift of (iod couldlx' purchased 
 with money," but here arc professed successors of the apostle 
 who deteeted^ him, who will net part with it except flu- money f 
 i'lie spirit of Cliristian love prompts even the loy)iian to "do 
 g(X)d to alias he has opportunity," but here are ministers who 
 disregard such ofiportuuities as are not <:oMen tjues. Dear 
 reader, do you doubt the truth of this charge? We can 
 liardly woiider that you do; and yet, alas ! it i.s too well sus- 
 tained. The present wonderful o|)enirigs in Coniuuigbt were 
 in some measure caused by this very circumstiin'ce ; for 
 during the famine, the jiriests, in numbers of cases, would 
 not take the trouble of crossing a i\'\v fields to nnoirit the dying, 
 l)ecausc tluy had no money to pay them ! And t! is is ilio 
 religion of the (Jod of lov.! ' Why, humanity would frown 
 the wrdeli out of society who W(juld refuse to save a drown- 
 ing man unless paid for" bis trouble; but here are men, who 
 profess to be able to save souls to any c.\tei;t, yet w^ill let 
 them peri:<li to any extent unless their purse is replVnislad by 
 the transaction, and who thus prove ihemsclvi's imposiors, 
 who do not believe in their own masses, or wretches w ho w ill 
 not ofler then). 
 
 Once more, it is a religion q^ cruelly ; proceeding thioufjliout 
 on the assumption that God demands, not the sanctidcation, 
 but the saerllice. of the nature lie has given us, and repre- 
 senting him as deliuhting in such tortures as arc present( d to 
 Juggernaut or Kidi. With Rcme the degree of sanctity is 
 always measured by that of voluntary suflering ; and she 
 liohis up to our admiration such devotees as liardwigir of 
 Poland and Margaret of Hungary, b( cause they so mangled 
 tlitir bodies that "they could scarce bo recognizi d." Uead 
 the lives of her saints ; see how the biograpiier kindles into 
 
90 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 ecstacy as he tells you how one mangled his borly with scour- 
 ges, another rolled himself in thorns, a third nailed liimselfon 
 a cross, and a fourth burned himself in the fire. Or visit 
 some of her holiest scenes of devotion — Lough Derg, for ex- 
 ample. See that group of pilgrims approaching it ; it is a 
 bright autumn afternoon, but there is a gloom on their brow, 
 strangely contrasting with the sunshine around them — say, 
 is it the spirit of him who exclaimed, " I joyed when they said 
 unto me. Let us go unto the house of God ?" Tliey approach 
 that dismal lake, surrounded with dreary bogs, and selected 
 with Rome's usual skill to impress the mind with gloom. 
 Arrived at that stygian wa!er, they are ferried across to Sta- 
 tion Island, and there undergo a course of self-'nflictions, not 
 much exceeded at the island of Gonga Sagor. And is this 
 the sweet service of the God of love? Thhik you that poor 
 devotee, who has finished his last round at Patrick's Purgatory, 
 ^vith his clothes all torn and draggled, his knees all cut and 
 bleeding, can dream that that Saviour, who delights in this 
 unmeaning torture, is the same with him who yearned over 
 the widow of Nain, and wept by the grave of Lazarus ? And 
 yet even this is little ; he is taught that this same Saviour has 
 prepared for him another purgatory, of which Patrick's is a 
 feeble type ; whore, according to the best authorities, som-^ 
 are translixed with red-hot nails, others lashed by devils with 
 dreadful whips, others gnawed by fiery serpents with ignited 
 teeth, others pierced with the flaming stings of burning ser- 
 pents, and others still shot out of belching volcanoes, and re- 
 ceived back into their burning craters, to be shot out again 
 and again ! ! Such a saviour he may dread ; we ask, can 
 he possibly /ove him ? Oh, what a hideous caricature of that 
 blessed Emmanuel, who sulTered in our stead f Yet to these 
 torments he consigns his own children for those transgressions 
 which, but for his own licenses to sin, they might never have 
 committed ! av, and the period of their torment tliere he makes 
 to depend much on the length of their purse. The poor may 
 burn on in those flames — the rich may escape in a month. 
 Their priests could pray them a!/ out, but will not, uidcss 
 paid for it, and that by Christ's cnnnnand !! And yet you 
 wonder, reader, at the irreliginn of our hapless countrynu n, 
 to whom the God of love is thus presented as the (lod of crn 
 elty — the heavenly countenance of tlie Prince of Peace dis- 
 toned into tlie face of a demon — the Sun of Righteousness 
 overspread with tJic lurid hue of an eclipse — and by the same 
 
 •A 
 
 m 
 
ROME DESTROYS THE HEART. 
 
 91 
 
 witli scour- 
 d himself on 
 ?. Or visit 
 erg, for ex- 
 it ; it is a 
 their brow, 
 them — say, 
 en they said 
 3y approach 
 ind selected 
 vith gloom. 
 ;ross to Sta- 
 lictions, not 
 And is this 
 u that poor 
 ! Purgatory, 
 all cut and 
 j;lits in this 
 earned over 
 rus ? And 
 Saviour has 
 trick's is a 
 rities, som'^ 
 devils with 
 tvith ignited 
 urning ser- 
 )es, and re- 
 )t out again 
 e ask, can 
 ture of that 
 k'et to tliese 
 iisgressions 
 never have 
 •e he makes 
 e poor n)ay 
 ti a montii. 
 not, unless 
 ul yet you 
 'juntrynien, 
 [jod of cm 
 Peace dis- 
 ihteousness 
 ly tiic same 
 
 act, the glorious cross veiled from their trembling gaze and 
 such purgatorial horrors presented in its stead. 
 
 Love to Man. — The religion of Jesus makes us kind. To 
 use the words of the prophet, it turns the wolf into the lamb. 
 Shedding its kindly iufluences over the whole face of society, 
 it stills the stormiest elements of life ; and makes the flowers 
 of social happiness, so often laid prostrate by the tempests of 
 human passion, to raise their drooping heads and exhale a 
 sweeter perfume. And even War, that cursed demon that 
 Christianity is destined ultimately to destroy, it meantime half 
 disarms ; distils some drops of mercy into the poisoned cup he 
 holds; and half quenches the firebrands ho flings around. 
 In a word, beneath its heavenly sway hearts cease to bleed, 
 and tears to fall ; a thousand streams o^ ^lief flow, as if by 
 enchantment, through the haunts of misci^ , and the downcast 
 mourner looks up and smiles. 
 
 Has this been the influence of Rome — that church which 
 trusts so much to her "good works," and keeps a treasury of 
 supererogatory grace ? Alas! she has done less to relieve 
 human wretchedness, and more to create it, than all the other 
 churches in Christendom ; and while we find within her bosom 
 a Bonner, a Beaton, a Cortez, and an Alva, in vain do we 
 search for a Clarkson, a VVilberforce, or a Howard. 
 
 The same spirit of cruelty wiiich fancies the Most High to 
 take pleasure in tortures, is exhibited even to the lower crea- 
 tion. We refer not merely to the bull-baiting scenes of Popish 
 Spain, which even Andalu^ian ladies delight to visit ; we 
 would only ask you to examine the torn backs of the donkeys 
 and horses at any of our southern fairs, and then attempt if 
 you dare to enforce the act against cruelty to animals. Nor 
 is this want of feeling less displayed by the children of Rome 
 in tlieir dealings witli one another. Roman Catholic servants 
 ■will generally tell you that they prefer Protestant masters to 
 those of their own persuasion, and assign the reason that they 
 are kinder to them when in health, and far more tender in 
 sicknnss. Ask their own poor whether they get most relief 
 from Protestant or Roman Catholic, — from the parson or the 
 priest ? Often have we ourselves asked them why they do 
 not go to their own clergyman for alms, and l)een answered, 
 " God help us, we need not go to him." We have made 
 careful inquiry at some of the principal hospitals in Ireland, 
 and the results have in this respect proved truly iiisln.iftive. 
 
% 
 
 02 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 In e north and south infirmaries of Cork, the vast majority 
 of he uinmtes are Roman Catholics, and of the contrihmors, 
 citv nnl '' '" P''°P°';".r *^ '''^'''- •'^^''^P'^^live populations in the 
 nLrflTT^^,' '"'"'^ one of the directors of the Belfast 
 Rom n r H -r ^•'."^••''^^'^'•'.f J it a« "a Protestant Hospital for 
 
 lZufT?r ^^^ '"""''''■ ^' '^ '" "^'" ^° ^^'^"'P' to ascribe 
 tf^ s difTercnce m any respect to recent calamities, for it has 
 
 always existed I,, 1834, Mr. In^Wis found 2,145 persons on 
 
 ol on^f ^'p ^""'" '^"'^'^'^^ «-'«>y House.'^of wl om 
 t^ e^in^nh- ? ^Il^'f-^t'-^^'t^' '-^"d 'I'-^'gl' the vast majoritv of 
 e inhabitants of that city are Roman Catholics, he states, 
 ! h . 1 r^y n°""'^ subscribed by them, there were £50 
 RoZ rtl'^- P'^'^^^'^"'- 't i« ^q-l'y vain to plead ihat 
 iViZvorf; ""'t "''^"^' Poor_if the church of Ro.ne so 
 
 impoverishes a people as to make them a public burden, is 
 
 s^lf can afford ? ^ et, even during the period of the fann'ne 
 
 when every drain of selfishness should surely have been s on' 
 
 ped to swell the streams of charity, the vast propor, on of the 
 
 3lic>ved were Roman Catholics, and of the relie'vin^, ZeZ 
 
 unts; and win le the Protestant /oLorers of Ulster and Britain 
 
 ^ere sending their uages to the famished south, it was the 
 
 topic of public remark, that balls and entertainments were 
 
 going on as usual in several southern towns, though paupers 
 
 were nightly dying in their streets ! ' = ' paupeis 
 
 nreheLl'lhrn''"''^ ''T" '^°'" .'""'^ ^^'" priests seem to com. 
 prehend the Divine aphorism, " It is more blessed to -rive than 
 
 U. receive;" but the cases of extortion we have nc;ticed a e 
 such as are sanctioned by the church. Sometimes, however 
 
 mhS 1?"^°" ''i,''""'^ «P'"-tu^l ^or.,ln, on 'their oVn 
 autho.ity Kven ,n Ulster, we have often Tseen the small 
 
 m Jertht'n""" '' r"i P'''-^'«.^>".^J^--^ their half-load of com 
 under the name of the "priest's siook." In Connau.xht • 
 s.ni.lar tax is levied, called the "priest's 4«.V.''' | jbe 
 various "stations" for confession which are held in diflbreU 
 
 o the . lest; and the poor people have been known to sell 
 
 IrV r/n; '"•.°"''''" ^l'"^' '" "'"^■'■t-'''" l^i'^ •' Si"^!' a burden is 
 this fl-lt, hat If any of the flock are sus^octed of Bible-readim 
 01' other heretical practices, he often, 'by way of punish rt' 
 appoints stations at their houses; and so intolerable h t e 
 custom grown of late, that in some dioceses, a breakfast \n. 
 by the bishop s orders, been substituted for a dinner; while 
 
 
ROME DKSTROVS THE HEART. 
 
 93 
 
 B vast majority 
 le contril)utors, 
 pulatioris in the 
 of the Belfast 
 nt Hospital for 
 5mpt to ascribe 
 ies, for it has 
 145 persons on 
 luse, of" whom 
 1st majority of 
 ics, he states, 
 !re were £50 
 to plead that 
 jh of Kotrie so 
 lie I)urden, is 
 ■elief she her. 
 'f the famine, 
 ive been stop, 
 iportion of the 
 >ving, Protes- 
 'I' and Britain 
 h, it was the 
 nnients were 
 augh paupers 
 
 seem to com. 
 i to give tlian 
 
 ■ noticed are 
 les, however, 
 »ii their own 
 '11 the small 
 load of corn, 
 ionnuught, a 
 
 ■ '" At the 
 in difierent 
 
 iiist he given 
 lown to sell 
 a burden is 
 hie. reading, 
 piiiiishnuiit, 
 hie has the 
 •"•akfast has, 
 iner; while 
 
 owing, doubtless, to the waning influence of the priests, the 
 Synod of Thurles has found it necessary to discountenance 
 the practice altogether. During the late fainine — when the 
 Hindoos of Calcutta and the Copts of Alexandria were send- 
 ing relief to Ireland— its own priest, in many cases, not only 
 left the people to perish, but robbed them of the alms bestowed 
 by heathen and Mohammedan charity. One priest made large 
 sums byselling holy salt to cure the potato disjease, and many 
 gave their last sixpence to purchase this specific ; others sold 
 the relief.tickets with which they were intrusted for gratui- 
 tous distribution ; while several gave them to the people on 
 condition that the first relief procured should be brought to 
 them, as payment of arroar-dues !* Of some, it was reported 
 that they never gave a satisfactory account of the relief which 
 was entrusted to their care ; and such currency did those ru- 
 mors gain, that those who had first entrusted them therewith, 
 soon thouirht it better to commit it to other hands. And Dr. 
 M-Hale himself, while appealing through the papers to public 
 sympathy on behalf of the starving masses aroimd him, was 
 convicted by the relieving officer as a defaulter in the payment 
 of his own poor-rates? The author, while in Connaught in 
 the winter of 1848, was as much struck with the fulness of 
 the priests' haggards as with the emptiness of their people's ; 
 and, as an explanation of the phenomenon, a brother mission, 
 arv related the following anecdote: — In the neighborhood of 
 VVestport, dwelt a poor man who supported a family on five 
 acres of land. When the potato failed in 1847, his all was 
 destroyed, save a small patch of oats, which amounted, when 
 reaped, to sixty sheaves. The priest came round for his 
 " bart." The wretched man pointed imploringly to his wife 
 and family. You say, surely the priest gave hiiri somethinf-; 
 at least, it is impossible he could have asked him for anything ; 
 and, for the sake of our common humanity, one would fain so 
 believe. But, deaf to every entreaty, dead to every feeling, 
 he commanded his servant to coimt into his cart '^0 sheaves 
 of the 60, and then he marched ofT with his booty ! ! Yet 
 these men, who have only themselves to support, are the pro- 
 fessed ministers of Flim who " was rich, yet for our sak js 
 became poor," and from his great tribunal will proclaim to 
 the wicked, " I was an hungered, and ye gave no meat," &c. 
 No wonder the remark should be common amongst thtir 
 
 • Ireland in 1846, pp. 174-176. 
 
04 
 
 THE GRAND CAITSE. 
 
 S 
 
 he 
 
 y 
 
 flocks, that "a priest's monry never wear.'! m?/." Yet this in 
 th.. syste.n wuch purchases heaven by liberality and love- 
 has whole or. ers bearing such musical names as "Christian 
 Brothers" and " S.sters o( l\Iercy"-and especially boasts hs 
 convents as sanctuaries of heavenly charily ! Well we shall 
 presently take a peep into these sacred retreats, and shallonlv 
 now remind the reader that such cases as thok. of M J T U 
 hot, the Misses McCarthy, and Maria Monk, show that, within 
 he abodes of celestial love, there is pretty frequently betrayed 
 
 rns'ts'If^ r ' '7"'/ '''' P^'-'^'^^th.-'ay, Ld various oZr 
 pasHons (jI a terrestrial tvpe ! 
 
 Yet this is but lingering on the threshold of our theme. If 
 you wtsh to see the inmost soul of Rome, consult thoTecor, 
 of persecution. The cnly weapon Christianity knows.T 
 ruth m love " Besides its Author knows that «uW ,1 
 
 .e convinced, but cannot b« coerced ; that force may n2 
 hypocntes, but never true Chus.ians ; that the heart can^nly 
 be won by kmdness and to attempt to force affection, o.^^ 
 to create disgust. Tuo individuals compete for you • hea t • 
 one of them mipiKsons, tortures, burns vou ; you^an sCtrco 
 help abhorring l„m. The other yearns over you, 1 owns 
 kindnesson you lives for you, dies for you ; can ymt ref"a n 
 
 iom loymg h.m ? As acts the latter, so acts Christ^^accord 
 mg to the laws of God and of our nattlre. As acts he Wr' 
 so does Rome-these laws seem to give her smal co^-rn 
 
 time that her tenets ye persecuting. VVe wonder why others 
 
 d ni'e if wfl P?'r I' ^^'V^' ''''^''''^ forsooth,\ome 
 denies it We look to her whofe career, their best commen 
 
 cSw^E ve"beeVh'%°"^°'''°°'- ''''' ^^^ -"humb. 
 sciew have been her flxvorite arguments: and, as a livinrr 
 
 vmer has calculated she has she'd more holy bJd thn all 
 
 he gibbets on earth have shed of felon blood ! Look ," the 
 
 Irish massacre of 1641, planned bythe priests in MuTtifarnhan 
 
 Abbey, ,n which 60,000 Protestants perished amidsl tE 
 
 murderers' exulting yells.* Witness the rebelliorof 17gi 
 
 parts little else than a butchery of Protestants under thp 
 d.rectton of the priesthood. Or look to othfr tnds and t 
 
 S'thVhr7 'I ^"'•°Pf "^°«^ ^'^'^ J^- "°t been Va tened 
 with the blood, whose air has not been rent with the groans of 
 
 * Some say 100,000. 
 
 i 
 
;." Yet this is 
 
 ity unci love — 
 as "Cliristiiin 
 ^ially boasts its 
 VVelJ, we shall 
 and shall only 
 »o of Miss Tal- 
 3W tlmt, within 
 (ntly betrayed 
 d various otiier 
 
 >iir themo. If 
 jlt the records 
 
 knows, is the 
 lat viind may 
 ce may make 
 'leart can only 
 :^ction, is only 
 r your heart ; 
 3U can scarce 
 
 you, showers 
 >n you refrain 
 n'ist — accord, 
 ctstlie former, 
 nail concern, 
 he thousandth 
 ler why others 
 rsooth, Rome 
 •est commen- 
 t and thumb. 
 , as a living 
 slood than all 
 
 Look to the 
 Multifurnhan 
 
 amidst their 
 lion of 1798, 
 :ame in many 
 ts, under the 
 inds ; and is 
 •een fattened 
 the groans of 
 
 1 
 
 HOME DESTROYS THE HEART. 
 
 95 
 
 1 
 
 Rome's victims ? Pope Julius caused, in seven years, the 
 slaughter of •^0(),(»OOCliristians ; 10(»,()()(» fell in the" Barlholo- 
 mew massacre ; 100,000 in the butchcrii s of the VValdenses 
 and Albigenses; 1,500,000 Jews, and 8,000,000 of Moors, 
 were slaughtered in Spain ; l'),000,000 in South America 
 and Cuba; while the colil-blooded buiclieriesof the Dutch by 
 the Duke of Alva, of thf English by Bloody Mary, and of the 
 Spanish and Italians by the " Holy Inquisition, are familiar 
 to all our readers. The latter infernal tribunal has destroyed, 
 in Spain alone, 2,000,000 of lives;* while Rome is calcu- 
 lated to have shed, in all, the blood of 08,000,000 of the 
 human race ! ! 
 
 Yet this brief summary gives no such conceptions of the 
 character of Rome, as the circumstances under which these 
 butcheries were eflccted. You sen her popes and cardinals 
 coolly plotting the extermination of whole countries, and then 
 chanting Te Dcums when their schemes have succeedt d ; 
 and you see them (.'xecuting their plots with a refinement of 
 cruelty, of which only hell seemed c.ipable. Who can read of 
 the engines of torture by which myriads wore tormented in 
 the dungeons of lli) Inquisiiiuti, without fancying himself in 
 the prisons of the damncfl, and surrounded by the fiends of 
 perdition ? Yet these horrors were matters of jest to the 
 inquisitors themselves. " (aive me a Jew," said Azzerro, the 
 inquisitorial butcher of Cordova, and 1 will show you in my 
 crucible a residuum of ashes !" And the most revolting fea- 
 ture of the case is, that these atrocities have all been perpe- 
 trated in the name of Jesus, and for the love of God! The 
 female martyr, whilst being torn to pieces by these monsters, 
 was ever and anon greeted with these words, — " Beloved sis- 
 ter, recant." Heaven's blessing has been invoked on their 
 most shocking butcheries, and their victim's groans have 
 been drowned by their chants and hallelujahs. When the 
 edict of Nantes was revoked in the face of the most solemn 
 oaths, thereby eflfecting the ruin of myriads, a hoary-headed 
 wretch exclaimed, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart 
 in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation !!" Yes, in 
 the name of Religion derds have been done at which 
 humanity shudders ; and the rude soldier has wept over the 
 innocents his priest has forced him to slaujjhter. And such 
 a systenti of blood you must believe to be divine, such fiendish 
 
 * Llorentes' Hietory of the Inquiaition. 
 
96 
 
 THE GRAND CATTSE. 
 
 t 
 
 Romn b..held from .f.. I'J Q 0^ s^vajros to one of saints, 
 
 ceaTodlr in rues t i atv ?o.'^"T^ ^'T-''^^' ^"^ "-^'^ 
 W.-fn^o .1 '"/"^'oues 1,11 ,t lay tQ,.,j jjijj blood nfT at her foot 
 
 rn^/!,n '''''r' '! *^^^ste"' ^vhich borrosvs the nameoftha 
 O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge a^nd avenge oS 
 
 1^ 
 
 
SOME DESTnoYs THB HEART. 
 
 07 
 
 erls that would 
 ti the moek and 
 -Jod" careering 
 
 and a crucifix 
 's, hearing such 
 tof!! 
 
 the man who 
 i she has shed. 
 1 known to re- 
 
 VVero we not 
 "<!>', that another 
 ary? Changed? 
 •se of Tahiti — 
 ransformed by 
 one of saints, 
 ^ise, and never 
 ng at lier feet. 
 
 the revolution 
 , with its con- 
 ■• ; and which 
 Pope returned, 
 n the forest to 
 lly blind, who 
 that she only 
 of Smithfield. 
 
 amongst our. 
 , of Milltown, 
 ," exclaimed 
 lem in every 
 law." Suffi. 
 in auto-da fe, 
 t us have one? 
 
 protection of 
 fary raised to 
 
 name of the 
 'hich enwrap 
 3 that he has 
 I' ages in the 
 of Attila and 
 lartyrs seem 
 " How long, 
 
 avenge our 
 
 blood on them that dwell on the earth ?" How often amongst 
 ourselves has Homo dried up like a scorching sinxjco, the 
 streams of social kindness, an<i fulfilling to the letter the ape- 
 calyptic prediction, forbidden her people to " buy or sell" to 
 our missionaries ? How often has she sought to freeze the 
 springs of the Irish heart, and forbidden the people " to give 
 the missionaries a drink of water," insomuch, that they have 
 sometimes, in a manner truly characteristic, evaded the stern 
 •command by giving them a drink of milk! Yet by some 
 they are deemed savages, whilst scarce a whisper of censure 
 is breathed against that church which thus labors to instil into 
 their souls its scorpion venom, and make hatred of Protestants 
 the chief article of their creed ; — a church which, wherever 
 she has the power, rends into shreds nature's tenderest ties, 
 «nd sets the parent against the child, and the child against 
 the parent ; and which seems to have become more wicked 
 yith advancing years, till now in her growing decrepitude she 
 is gnashing her broken fangs at the young buoyant Spirit of 
 light and liberty that is shaking its wirtgs over Europe, and 
 till those who erst were her credulous apologists, would gladly 
 join in the jubilant shout which shall ere long ring to heaven 
 — •* Babylon is fallen, is fallen !" 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 ROME DEBASES THB WHOLE NATURE. 
 
 Thus have we demonstrated the blighting influence of 
 Rome on the three chief parts of man's nature. But there 
 are various qualities essential to human progress, which sprint 
 from these as branches from the stem, and on which the char, 
 acter of Popery is singularly displayed. As when the tree 
 is lightning-struck, the blasting influence is seen on every 
 leaf and twig, such is the scathing eflfect of Popery, not on 
 the chief parts only, but on the minutest ramifications of the 
 character and conduct. We can only trouble thei^peader 
 with a very few examples. 
 
 The Devices. — Mark how the v.hole tendency of Popery 
 is to paralyze the energies and blight the better qualities of 
 man. What so certain to beget mental inertness in all the 
 affairs of life, as tha dreadful device of keeping him in a 
 
M 
 
 n 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 m 
 
 utiito of mpntiil torpor in rogartl to its grand concern, religion t 
 Will the intellect whicli is always thrown into a mesmeric 
 ^leep at Iho nltar, not feel the deadening effect in the world ? 
 Cum th(t mind which is pinioned one half its time use its wings 
 HO oxptjrily the remainder ; or a man who is a mere machine 
 to-d«y, hccomo by his simple volition a philosopher to-mor- 
 row ? Then the whole tendency of Popery is to make its 
 vIctimH »oc/«/ cripples, and their life a prolonged childhood. 
 From tlirir cradles to their graves they are dependent on their 
 prient ; ho thinks for them, prays for them, shrives them, 
 anoints them, manages all their eternal concerns, and inter- 
 fer«!H pretty freely with their temporal also. They must not 
 even use their senses but as he directs ; for when he tells 
 them broad is no longer bread, they must believe him. And 
 thu/d their whole training makes them helpless creatures; 
 they Hcquiro of necessity the habit of dependence; and ac- 
 cuHtoniod to confide to other hands their eternal a\\, the greater 
 intercMt, they come but too naturally to confide their temporal 
 all, the Ivsa. How sildly exemplified in the case of our coun- 
 tryman ! If they want their rivers deepened, their harbors 
 injprovfd, their very land drained, they look elsewhere for 
 aNNiHtuncri. Hospitals are established — they look to parlia- 
 ment to support them ; trade is decaying — tJiey look to parlia- 
 merit to relieve them; the potato fails — they look to parlia- 
 ment to \\m\ them; they want a Galway Packet Station, and 
 look first to England, then to America. Nay, they cannot 
 even get up a rebellion without seeking foreign aid : in 1798, 
 Wolff) Tone presents himself before the French Directory ; 
 in 1848, Smith O'Brien waits on Lamartine. And thus our 
 poor country lies a paralytic on the world's highway, crying 
 to nil nations to come and help her along! 
 
 Look farther to the havoc which Rome works on one's 
 ajtirit of independence. Such are the terrible conditions 
 imposiid by tin's giant enslaver, that it is scarcely possible to 
 bo at once a Papist and a man. First, there sits the priest 
 on tho throne of God, the keeper of that man's conscience, 
 the jillor of his mind, and the factor of his eternal inheri- 
 tancc— do you expect such a man to stand erect before this 
 dread deity ; to dispute the will, however capricious, or resist 
 thft conunands, however intolerable, of that ghostly father, 
 wlioufi smile is heaven, whose frown is hell ? "I have power 
 to strike you dead this minute," exclaims Maria Monk's con- 
 fessor. Of course, with any but the most hopeless unbeliever, 
 this must have ended the controversy. 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 It 
 
 i Sk- 
 
ROME DEUASES TIIK WHOLE NATURE. 
 
 00 
 
 1 
 
 icern, religion ? 
 nto a mesmeric 
 !t in the world ? 
 ne use its wings 
 , mere machine 
 sopiier to-mor- 
 ' is to make its 
 iged childhood, 
 pendent on their 
 , shrives them, 
 erns, and inter- 
 
 They must not 
 ir when he tells 
 !ve him. And 
 less creatures; 
 dence ; and ac- 
 il M, the greater 
 
 their temporal 
 iseof our coun- 
 I, their harbors 
 I. elsewhere for 
 
 look to parlia- 
 y look to parlia- 
 
 look to parlia- 
 ket Station, and 
 ly, they cannot 
 naid : in 1798, 
 nch Directory ; 
 And thus our 
 ighway, crying 
 
 works on one's 
 •ible conditions 
 •cely possible to 
 
 sits the priest 
 n's conscience, 
 
 eternal inheri- 
 ect before this 
 'icious, or resist 
 ghostly father, 
 
 " I have power 
 ia Monk's con- 
 less unbeliever, 
 
 Then, reader, place yourself, where that poor Papist must 
 ofton kneel, at the coalbss*(jr'a foot. Titerc, on j)ain of incur- 
 ring mortal sin, you must open to liiin the very depths of 
 your soul ; thou;iiilH which you Wduld rutiier die than dis- 
 close to any other, must all he (liviil^ed to him. There is no 
 escaping, for with tiio help of ii thousand su<:gestive ques- 
 tious furnished by Dens and iJiilly, ho will, ere vou rise, 
 worm liimself into your inmost heart, and sound the lowest 
 depths of your bosom. And this Hcene is so often repeated, 
 that in effect, whatever you are doing, you feel as in the pres- 
 ence of tills terrible being ; it is as though he were ever 
 do'Ttrin" your steps, penetrating your mowt retired haunts, and 
 like some ghost enteruig your nndmght chairiber and peepmg 
 through the curtains of your couch. Could Satan have de- 
 vised'a more deadly engir»o bv which to (obliterate within you 
 every trace of manhood ? Is it possible to look in his face,_ 
 
 who knows all your secrets, and feel yourself a man ? If 
 yet any shame has survived this prolonged course of degra- 
 dation, must you not feel overwhelmed in presence of this 
 personator of the great Searcher of h(!urts 1 Now, surely 
 one needs but to remember that this engine of moral slavery 
 is worked every day in every parish of Ireland, in order to 
 understand why the Irish Roman Catholic is so often a spirit- 
 less and crouching serf. Can you wonder to hear of tho 
 Connaught peasa.it, who crawled out on tho road as the priest 
 rode by^and kissed the footprints of his horse ? or feel much 
 surprised to hear of O'Connell kmieling down in the mud of 
 bork streets to receive tin; priiisl's benediction ? or the En- 
 glish Earl of Arundel and Surrey lately doing the sam.e before 
 the priests of Limeric k ? No, let but this serpent coil itself 
 round a man's heart, and Enfflisk or Irish, he is a man no 
 longer. Well, accustomed to crouch brdbro one man, it be- 
 comes* natural to bow down to all. The willow that one 
 storm has effectually bent, can never afterwards stand erect 
 acrainst any ; and the man who humbles himself to the priest, 
 comes almost instinctively to do tho same to his landlord and 
 his master: and hence the obse(|uious servility of the south- 
 ern Roman Catholic, so singularly contrasting with the north- 
 em Protestant's sturdy independence. 
 
 But there yet remains to be noticed another element of 
 moral slavery more terrible Hlill. One would have thought 
 that with the afore-mentioned engines of subjugation, Rome 
 might have sat down content ; but lent amongst her prostrate 
 
100 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 1 on . t .ore n„.l,t yot bo CunrI o„o to raise . freeman's 
 
 H.a, , H he has invente.l l.erdoetrine „f - intention," acconlin- 
 
 -. which the vaLlity of every onlinance depenlis ,... the in" 
 
 .MH.ons ot the priest who performs it. If Von, i-mnrance 
 
 no, ec or sheer rnalevoienc... he does not in fhe oniil^ ^o 
 
 n lenr to ,lo what the church does," the ordinance is n;*„ 
 
 facio utterly null and void, and the victim of i.isVarelcJess 
 
 or wickedness remains still in his sins 
 
 lilcrM.r.1' ^;;"' "••''''"•'■'f '» ">• Huddhism present anvthinfr 
 ni h.s ? On the priest's intention, fr,r instance, it depends 
 whether the flour is u wafer or a ^.od ; or whether, in pu-! 
 taking of the eucharist, the worshipper is swallowing the 
 Saviour, and thus securing salvation, or adoring, a hit of pa te! 
 and thus committin« m.rtal sin ! So is it witir all the other 
 
 J'hl w "T-~'" i'^" ^''''^' '"'^'"^'■«" everythincT depends, and 
 he worshipper knows this. How absolutely "ovenvhelmiuff 
 ^ such a man's poiver, whose mere intention can send a 
 whole parish to purgatory or farther r Why, the Almicrhty 
 himself must be utterly lost sight of in presence of this im^ 
 postor-deity ; in his hands, and at his mercy, must the genuine 
 Roman Catholic believe himself to be forLe and e^ern ty 
 Would you mock snch a man by talking to him of freedom 
 who lies at his priest's feet in the most abject prostration "To 
 has nothmg that he dare call his own, and wlfo be ves hat 
 
 2^U^^ w ■ ^' "J" °"''" P'^'-^^^^ ^"^ '^'■•b^ hi« roaster 
 while he 1 waits on this spiritual tyrant's word, and follows 
 his ghostly displeasure? Oh ! the most gallin^ yoke th^t 
 ever crushed the African was libertj sweet to tliis hL 
 chains at most can but pierce into his bones, but here are 
 chains which eat through a man's soul; and the deepes' 
 a rocity hves in this, that it is his very feeling of devXn 
 his very concern about his soul, all tLt is to be admiredTn 
 him as a poor sinner seeking salvation-it is these which are 
 aken advantage of, the better to enslave and ruin him Surl 
 ly It IS not difficult to guess the author of such acon.Hvance : 
 
 lllZ '^"'l 'a ^"' °"^ ^^'"^ '" '^^ ""'^^--^^ capabl Jof the 
 reach »f wickedness .t betrays. Say. is it strange that our 
 
 poor countryman, on whose credulous ignorance luch a doc' 
 
 nne ,s from m ancy so industriously palmed, should submit 
 
 beZ'er' 7t"t ^r ^''''' ""^y ^''^«« ^° heap on h mTto 
 oSeteh v'''''''.""y'uP'''h'^P^'°^««the last indignity 
 
 ° wll «• » ""'^1 • •■ ^""^h;"'' ^'"hout daring to complain ? 
 What, sir," exclaimed an Irish laborer, wheS beaten by his 
 
 U i^ 
 
HI 
 
 ROMn DKBASES THB WHOLB NATURE. 
 
 101 
 
 ii'sc n froeman'g 
 ioti," Hcconliii^ 
 Dcniis on tho in. 
 Voni ijrnoranct', 
 I the oniinnnco 
 nlinai)oo is ipso 
 liis*careIossness 
 
 psont anylhinfT 
 iic(\ it (loponds 
 Miethor, in par- 
 iwallowinjr the 
 g a hit of paste, 
 1 all the other 
 <^ doponds, and 
 
 overwhelming 
 on can send a 
 , the Almighty 
 OCR of this im- 
 ust the genuine 
 and eternity, 
 m of freedom, 
 rostration, who 
 ) believes that 
 be his master, 
 ■d, and follows 
 ng yoke that 
 
 to this. His 
 I, but here are 
 d the deepest 
 s; of devotion, 
 be admired in 
 ese which are 
 in him. Sure- 
 I contrivance; 
 ;apabl(j of the 
 inge that our 
 3 such a doc- 
 hould submit 
 ip on him ; to 
 ast indignity 
 to complain ? 
 beaten by his 
 
 1 
 
 nrirst till his face was covcrod with blood, and asked liow ho 
 could onduro it-" What, sir, strike a prit-st ! if I would 
 touch a priest, my arm would wither from the shoulder blarlo. 
 
 Well, surely this at l<'ust completes the list of Ifome s en- 
 slaving schcmes-surely this must be the last fold of that 
 fearful net, in whoso mc^shes her victims seem s> hopelessly 
 entanLdod— and suielv the skill of Popery's subtle author has 
 nothing worse to add.' Alas ! our painful task is not yet done 
 -those who have read Michelet's " Priests, Women, an. 
 Families," will understand that there remains to be nnU)l«le(l 
 one other device, the most deeply diabolical of all. We have 
 already hinted at the amazing wisdom and goodness displaycU 
 in Leaking man " male and female ;" to that single arrange, 
 ment, with all the relations it creates, is our race indebted tor 
 not only its existence, but a very large amount of its virtue 
 and happiness. The felicity of paradise was imperfect with- 
 out it ; and the relation which was thus found necessary to 
 complete the joys of innocence, contributes more than any 
 other, when its laws are duly observed, to mitigate the woes 
 of fallen humanity. Tho church, therel.jre, which would 
 fru'^trate the designs of this great arrangement, instead ot 
 laboring to secure its fullest, healthiest results, must be an 
 unutterable curse to mankind. Well, we have seen the ear. 
 ful effects even of e. partial interference with it in the celibacy 
 of the Romish priesthoo(!-the terrible revenge taken by na- 
 ture, even for this comparatively slight violation of her laws. 
 Then what must be the etTcct, if, as we now proceed to show, 
 Rome has even labored not only to rob this divine arrange- 
 ment of its benign influences, but to invest it instead with 
 malign ones; and not only to frustrate woman s holy destinies 
 as the 'guardian angel" of each generation, but to attempt to 
 transform her into its " destroying nngel ?" 
 
 Be it remembered that God has given woman ati influence 
 almost incalculable, and the sphere to exert it all but bound- 
 less. By endowing her with the softer sensibilities of our 
 nature, he has made her, in her own sphere, omnipotent for 
 eood. Her weakness thus becomes her strength, and her 
 reiiin one of love ; and she moves through society a centre 
 and a source of influences inestimably valuable in a world 
 like ours— softening its asperities, refining its grossncss, sweet- 
 eninjr its bitterness, and alleviating its woes. An.l these she 
 e^orlB everywhere-as a child in ^he nursery, as a sister m 
 the family, as a daughter by her parents' side, in the hallowed 
 
109 
 
 TUE GRAND CAtTSE. 
 
 ru T V'^"' ""^ !" ""' '^^^"'«''" '^"'''^'•"^"^ of n rnofhcr. 
 
 ♦. M arrungpmen m tins! N., wonder il.o ar,h.(i.<n.l l.as 
 alwa^ys amicl to doMroy womnn first ns tl.o surest nmnns of 
 forv nf2 "5"",' ^'^r'n '' '" '•'" "'"^^ tcnptntion, in tho his- 
 rp L ^''"''' ""'' "" °''"' ^^'^ ^"••''^- Wherever Satn.i 
 
 ov, the Hindoos captive, tho African's heast of burden, and 
 he prostrate s ave of all. And if you would see the Sa an c 
 
 skdl an ,n.qu, ty of this, you need only to contrast the Chris! 
 
 t.nn nmther w„h the Heathen, or the Monicas with the AnZ. 
 
 pmasofmar.ki„d; the one giving the world an AugusS 
 Surtrr^T'T" ""'' 'h^'-^'-coofa stronn, of mora 
 
 ale'ir/fTood^;' ''' °"^ ''''-'' ^ '^'^^ °'' '"•^' -''• ^he other 
 In Popery he has pursued the same policv, l)ut with a pro. 
 
 founder «uh,Iety. First, hy his various contrivances fl^r dis. 
 
 countenancmg n.arriage-such as its enti.e system of nunne. 
 
 ri(s—he seeks to frustrate tiie desijms of worniui's existence • 
 
 o rob n.ankmd of her precious induonces, and reduce herself 
 
 to a social nonentity, buried alivM in gloomy cloisters with 
 
 And .hither that hapless creature is consigned ; to wa-e as 
 
 tionsof herown nature :_by ,his dark conlrivanco trans, 
 tonmxi at once from being the fairest creation of (iod to be a 
 pil.ab e anomaly on earth, unable to be an angel, vet not per. 
 mined to be a woman, and thus dr.omed to virtuafsuicide. 
 
 even Rome to commit with much success, her next and grand 
 
 . rnisto take possession of tho soul, which she cannot thus 
 
 ) >?,' 1 ; and to transform those females whom she cannot thus 
 
 iKimsh from society, into tools by which the better to elV- I, r 
 
 deep designs asrainst it. * 
 
 As file conm// is her great instrument in the one • ■• ., 
 i^ the confesswnalin the other;— and will the reader iust 
 attend while we briefly unfold a contrivance ns rliabolical ns 
 ever was hatched in hell, for destroying woman's purity and 
 rf. .'r-'..i.ng her soul. The process begii^s in very infancy ; at 
 he ^o<l'^r age offve, the joyoi.s-hearted little ffirl is dram.ed 
 «M ./ ■ ''ond like a lamb to the slaughter, to have'"s"ng 
 
 su|p.^., m w!ju;h she never thought before, and questions 
 put acn -m. a innocenpr> recoils; and that more infant must 
 
i 
 
 BOMB DRBASE8 THl WHOIJ NATORE. 
 
 loa 
 
 I of nrnofficr. 
 
 .such (I lIlfT- 
 
 cli-ficnd has 
 ?st menns of 
 1, in tho his- 
 ?rever Satan 
 hornnicdan's 
 
 hurdon, and 
 3 tho Satanic 
 St the Chris. 
 h tlie A^'rip. 
 
 Au^Mistino, 
 un of moral 
 ind the otiier 
 
 M'ith a pro. 
 tiers fur (h's- 
 ni of riunnf.'. 
 1 existonoo ; 
 rluco hersflf 
 )istfTs, with 
 
 rcinaiiiirif^. 
 to waj^'p, as 
 and udiipta- 
 nnco trans, 
 -lod to he a 
 ret not por- 
 snicido. 
 mature for 
 1 and grand 
 !annot thus 
 3a n not thus 
 
 efli '■'. Ii . r 
 
 ne •".".,■;(', ru 
 'ender just 
 ibolieai as 
 purity and 
 :i fancy ; at 
 is dragged 
 
 1 havp sing 
 I questions 
 nfant must 
 
 r 
 
 t 
 
 thorobfi cross-queslioned a« to whether she has yet felt any 
 carnal desires!!* As years advanco, thoso ques.Mns .ncrea^ 
 in vileness, and that innocent young creature, as fl^^" *« «' « 
 approaches her confessor, «iust bo dragged through nn exam - 
 naiion so disgusting that we cannot pollute our P;'g'^« «^;" 
 with a sample'; it is'onough to refer our readers to th.-e d P< - 
 sitories of o!-,^nily, Dens, Delahoguo, and B>ully, m wh ch 
 there are whole chapters on " ir.mio.le.t thoughts, words, 
 touches, looks, and acts," and all these must bo turned ... o 
 questions, and by the female distmctly answered ! ^ f-^ej 
 no escape even for the blushi.ig virgin, for a " geneml con- 
 fession may not only be unprofitable, but even <^^^f'^^^^^^ 
 imp.oper,"t and therefore " it is necetsary to explain every- 
 thine '* Neither is matrinion,/ the least protection ; for these 
 obsfene inquisitors obtrude themselves into the 'narnage 
 chamber, deinan.l the secrets ..f tho nuptial couch, «"' '"'^ke 
 the minutest inquiries '^ circa actum conju^a em! ^'\y' V''* 
 famous system spares not the disconsolate teidow u. her 
 w" for- it is a mortal sin even " to recollect t e j.ys once 
 sanctioned by her marriage vow, and mus^ ^^^jfj" j"^;^ 
 specially confessed."t Only imagine every Roman Cathohc 
 maid and matron in Ireland, dragged unnuallyaUAe/.fl.^ 
 through this sink of abomination, at the more P'r^sure and 
 
 after The prurient fancy of some coarse b-^^^'''^'"^"^^*; X ' n 
 this enacted in the name and beneath the mask of rel.g on 
 It reallv possible that Roman Catholics can tamely submit 
 to this ? Oh, does it not imply a moral degradation absolutely 
 puable 1 How can a father permit his lovely <l-;ghtef t° ^^ 
 exposed to such an ordeal ?-how can a husband endure to 
 hale his virtuous wife subjected to such debasement ?--above 
 all, how can a bashful female, she who woul. prefer death to 
 attheofthisdisho.nur from any other hands submit to be 
 robbed by an unmarried priest of all that gives d.gmty to 
 woman, and leave the confessional a degraded thing ? We 
 speak not now of its debauching influence, we «top not to ask 
 bV what miracle of preserving grace woman can ever leave 
 such a scene a virtuous being ; but we ask even were all 
 that has ever been said and admitted of the confessional a 
 
 »Di'ns, vol vi. p. 204. 
 
 t Curr"* " Fumilinr Instructions," p. 193. 
 
 t Christian's Guide to Heaven, p|). 80, 81. 
 
 § " Progress of the ConfeBsional," p. 20. 
 
104 
 
 THE GRAM* CAVSS. 
 
 debaucheries a monstrous libel, even were woman al«-ays to 
 
 uZlJ 7' ^°^ T '^^ P^^^'^'y ^«««P« degradation/ 
 If even a man of any feehng cannot look his co«feLr in the 
 tace how can a wotnan attempt to do so? It is simply im. 
 possible. Unless such scenes have obliterated her feelings 
 a ogether, she must even in her own eyes be a debased and 
 flu K '"'^A''''- ' ^""^ what a dreadful alternative this, alike 
 latal to her dignity, either to have her modesty extinguished 
 or continually outraged ! ^ ii"bu*t>jieu 
 
 blpdr'rX'' ?'^ ''•«'?^«ndo"j consequences. She has hum. 
 bled herself to her priest, and he has by this means acquired 
 over her a boundless authority. She d'are not resist it?~she 
 never does ; for one glance from that basilisk eye, darted into 
 r«Joh w u T^ t»'»\e"^»gh to suppress the first risings of 
 Miit il ' '''*";"&V'l»« f «"re'J Z'^'-. »he priest has secured 
 to h-^ ? r"'^ T*""'! ^•^^ has given her. All is made over 
 him, to be employed as he directs, and from that hour she 
 s t.ansformed mto an evil genius. Descending from her 
 kfty station as the worid's benefactress, she beconfes the mere 
 n.en al and decoy of " the church." The wholesome streams 
 of influence which flowed from her, are now drugged and 
 poisoned ; her children, her husband, her whole hoLehold; 
 she influences as the priest directs her, and thus, by one fe 
 stroke, the best safeg^iard of society is laid in rdns. Sa an 
 
 Plea oT'?.lwTf "^ '" ^'^ ^'■'' ^'"^^^ ^^'"P^^^'^" ' «"d the 
 whom t. Adam comes to mind-" It was the woman 
 
 whom thou gavest to be with me !" 
 
 of this profound conspiracy against the best interests of man. 
 
 fwo I?1 T ^"^^ "■""'^^^ *''« '^''^''' ^^i'h an example or 
 two ndeed m this, as in our other chapters, our aim is 
 
 r^^u'^n l^r' ^T '^'- •^l".^ '° "'^"^^ chamber of this dark laby! 
 rinthj and leave him to follow its windings himself. 
 
 It IS wonderful how similar are the fruits of all false sys- 
 
 th^P ~ r h ^""^ "-^v "^P'^' ^""^ *''^ '^'-^'^'^^ «f the Pagan and 
 the Papist, and the condition of the Irish hut and the Indian 
 wigwam. One of the most striking and usual effects o??Se 
 religion is cleanliness, and of false, religion is filth. If cleanii 
 ness IS not '; ne.xt to godliness," it is at least closelv con." 
 nected with it; for how seldom have you seen a truly lus 
 household who, in their whitewashed walls and welLwept 
 floor, did not bear pleasing testimony to the gospel's elevating 
 
 S 
 
ROME DEBASES THE WHOLE NATURE. 
 
 105 
 
 man always to 
 e degradation ! 
 oniessor in the 
 is simply im- 
 ;d her feelings 
 a debased and 
 itive this, alike 
 i extinguished 
 
 She has hum- 
 leans acquired 
 
 resist it, — she 
 ye, darted into 
 first risings of 
 !st has secured 
 II is made over 
 that hour she 
 ling from her 
 inies the mere 
 Bsome streams 
 
 drugged and 
 le household, 
 s, by one fell 
 ruins. Satnn 
 ion ; and the 
 3 the woman 
 
 >ut the effects 
 rests of man. 
 n example or 
 I, our aim is 
 lis dark laby. 
 elf. 
 
 all false sys- 
 16 Pagan and 
 d the Indian 
 ffects of true 
 Ifcleaiili- 
 closely con- 
 1 truly pious 
 I well-swept 
 I's elevating 
 
 pmver ! Now, in Protestant England, the humblest cottager 
 wa..es an eternal war with dirt. Enter if you will his litt e 
 kitchen, and every vessel is shining on the shelf ; and wuld 
 vou onlv pass from thence in an instant into many an Irish 
 Roman Catholic's parlor, you would beat no I'^^V",'^ p^l^iv 
 which of the two you would prefer to dine In fact Popery 
 is emphatically a filthy religion. The cabins of Irish Roman 
 Catholics are embowered in dirt,-you <^'^"'^ P^«« "^.^; ^hem 
 without the risk of defilement; and as you see the r doors 
 fronted by dung-heaps, in which filthy children are wallowing, 
 while their parents are lazily lounging about, you can t help 
 regarding the revolting spectacle as a visible protest to heaven 
 a/ainst a^system which could so brutalize immortal beings. 
 Y'es, and you who charge this on our countrymen m mdi, 
 have you ever been in other Popish lands ? M. Roussel. 
 speaking of his tour in Switzerland, says-" 1 met a carrier 
 v^ho enumerated all the clean cantons and all the dij-ty °"^^; 
 the man was unaware that the one list contained aU the Pi o- 
 testant cantons, and the other all the Popish ones * And m 
 the "holv city," where is so instructively exemplified every 
 feature of the "mother of abominations," we have this one 
 also; for Seymour declares, that " every species of filth, and 
 every kind of odor, greet the vistant on his entrance among 
 tlLstreets of this city of the church." " For filth for odors, 
 for indecency, for all that is offensive to the eye, to the feel- 
 Ls, to the habits of a clean y and orderly people the city of 
 Rome surpasses almost any other city in the world, t 
 
 Anothe? striking point of contrast between Chnstian and 
 Pa.mn lands, is the measure of respect which each shows to 
 its"dead. In the latter, for instance, you will see dead bodies 
 Wins unburied, and half-devoured by birds and beasts of prey. 
 Now every traveller has observed that a contrast precisely 
 similar exists between Protestant and Popish countries. In 
 orwestern graveyards, you will not only see bones stijwn 
 aLt on the surface of the ground, but half-decayed ends of 
 coffins sticking out of the graves ; and only just contra^ these 
 horrid golgothas with the neat-planted coun ry churchy ids 
 of P otistam Ulster and Britain! Yet a suU more revolting 
 scene is found in the Irish if«t.-that remnant of the funeral 
 games of Paganism, in which not only smokmg and drinking, 
 
 * New York Evangelist, 1849. 
 
 t Seymour's rilgrimnge lo Rome, p. 139. 
 
 5* 
 
lOG 
 
 li' i 
 
 h. 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 but all kinds of amusoment arc indulired in ; and these too 
 often vvmdin« up will) the characterislic fi„a/e of a row, in 
 Which the belhgerents have sometimes been known to strugL'lc 
 and tumble over the corpse itself! Yet the priest, by reason 
 ot his mighty influence, could easily put down such practices, 
 and vastly improve the people's general habits ; but when has 
 ho ever made the attempt ? And if you ask the reason, his 
 answer is, that it would be useless. So, then, he who is om- 
 nipotent when a Bible is to be burned, or a Scripture-reader 
 mobbed, IS, by his own confession, only impotent for eood ' 
 
 Instance, again, the general degradation which prevails in 
 all "dark places of the earth," with its attributes of sloth and 
 improvidence. Give an Irish peasant a patch of bog on which 
 to build a hut and plant potatoes, and he seems to have reached 
 the climax of his wishes. His brightest visions seem realized 
 in his cabin of mud,— his highest aspirations in his rood of 
 potatoes,— and the motto of his life seems henceforth to be, 
 
 VVhy should we think of to-morrow?" Therg he vegetates 
 but not alone. Whatever other precept he sets at naught, no 
 man seems more reverentially to regard the first great com. 
 mand, " Be fruitful and mulliply." Perhaps by eighteen he 
 IS married ; and we have known the " happy pair" to be obli- 
 ged to borrow the coat and gown in which'the nuptials were 
 performed. During the late famine, a man who received daily 
 relief, in Ballina, petitioned for a double supply, on the ground 
 that the committee were so kind and his prcispects had thus 
 grovN-ii so bright, that he had married a wife, and the extra 
 relief he sought was for her ! Everything else is in keeping : 
 ime, the most precious commodity to an Englishman, is, by 
 the Irish Roman Catholic, squandered with lavish hand ; while 
 diligence he is so little accustomed, that when working in 
 the fields he must stop to gaze at each passer-by : and, iS his 
 case, the plea of the unjust steward is reversed, for we have 
 known Inin to leave his "digging" in the field to " beg" a 
 half-penny rom a passing stranger. Indeed, begging seems 
 the national trade, and never was a race more ferTL fn expe- 
 dients to awaken liberality and impose on simplicity. They 
 have been known to make ulcers in their legs with bluestone • 
 and you would think those naked children who pursue the 
 coaches along the road had the most unquenchable thirst for 
 learning, for ''the half-penny" is always "to buy a book." 
 Yes, though the sixth of Ireland's population is in the poor- 
 house, this has scarce perceptibly diminished the number of 
 
HOME DEBASES THE WHOLE NATriE. 
 
 107 
 
 and these too 
 'e of a row, in 
 3wn to struggle 
 'iest, by reason 
 such practices, 
 ; but when has 
 he reason, his 
 
 he who is om- 
 3 riptu re-reader 
 nt for good ! 
 ich prevails in 
 es of sloth and 
 f bog on which 
 ) have reached 
 
 seem realized 
 in his rood of 
 icelbrth to be, 
 
 he vegetates ; 
 
 at naught, no 
 rst great com- 
 y eighteen he 
 ir" to be obli- 
 nuptials were 
 received daily 
 on the ground 
 ects had thus 
 »nd the extra 
 is in keeping: 
 ihman, is, by 
 1 hand ; while 
 n working in 
 
 ; and, in his 
 for we have 
 
 to " beg" a 
 egging seems 
 irtile in expe- 
 icity. Tliey 
 th bluestone; 
 ) pursue the 
 ible thirst for 
 juy a book." 
 
 in the poor- 
 3 number of 
 
 m 
 
 strollinK beggars. By the highways, you see them posted like 
 sentinels ; as^ou pass through a town they follow you, invo. 
 king the saints' blessings on your departed parents souls. 
 li you ent^^r a shop, they instantly surround ihe door ; an.^ 
 even late at night, you'll hear their monotonous call nsmg 
 the stillness of the half-deserted streets. . 
 
 Do you say it is because they are Irish ? We deny the 
 ungenerous charge. The Irish Protestant we have known o 
 be half starved in his dwelling before he would divulge h.s 
 wants. No ; it is the necessary fruit of p system which, by 
 degrading the whole soul, begets of necessity the «P'nt ot o 
 beggar; which, by laying such stress on the "»^''." °f ^''" " 
 giving, holds out a premium to begging; and which, by its 
 various mendicant " orders," invests the trade with not only 
 the garb of respectability, but the sanction of religion. Hence, 
 what Popish country does not swarm with beggars ? W hile 
 you travel for weeks through Protestant America wthout 
 meeting one, save from Ireland, every traveller tells you how 
 the Popish knds of Europe are filled with them. Mr. J j, he 
 had no sooner crossed the torrent which divides the Protestant 
 republic of Geneva from the Popish kingdom of Sardmia than 
 amongst other characteristic marks of desola ion, he met 
 troops of beggars, whose " numbets seemed endless, bvery 
 X'; mile, fn'the' day's ride of 50 miles, bought -w g-up^. 
 as filthy, squalid, and diseased, as those which had been pass, 
 ed."* Or? perhaps vou may say, 'tis necessity which make, 
 the Irish beg ? Alas ! the shortest way to get "d onhe 'm 
 portunity of some of them, is, as we have known, to offer them 
 employment. And is it not common for Irish laborers to be^ 
 tl^h way, not only going to the English harvests, but return, 
 g frShem, no^mltte? what earnings they may be carry, 
 ina back ; nay, to resort to various schemes to avoid paying 
 Ihfii ?are in tlfe' steamers which b-g them. home ? We have 
 seen the mate sometimes confining them m the hold, some, 
 times kicking them round the deck, sometimes f ^^2 ^Jf "^ 
 almost naked, before they would confess they had a fart^^^^^^^^ 
 about them ; and in one case, the honest sailor ^n his ind.g- 
 nation, flung the poor wretch's ^vaistcoatoverlx)ard where, 
 npon he raised a howl of lamentation, exclaiming tha he was 
 n ruined man ; and then the truth came out that he had sev- 
 eral pounds sewed up in its folds ! 
 
 • Wylie on tho Papacy, p. 482. 
 
S I 
 
 j 
 
 108 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 And these are thy trophies, O Rome— the proofs of thy di- 
 vinity— tha fruits of thy celestial sway ! Oh, how oft, when 
 witnessing such scenes as these, has oui very soul hurned, 
 not only with shame for our country, but indignation at the 
 system which has made her the world's very scorn ! And 
 we have felt amazed at the effrontery of those priests who, 
 daily walking amid the ruins they have wrought, can not only 
 lift their heads like other men, but rage and bluster the while 
 against England as the cause of all this mischief, and speak 
 of themselves and their system as the peerless embodiment of 
 transcendent and persecuted worth, and the only hope of Ire- 
 •land's elevation ! ! Surely in the light of these astounding 
 facts must the mist which has so long enveloped Ireland be 
 dissipated, and the contempt of which she has been the inno- 
 cent object, be henceforth levelled against her cruel enslaver. 
 For, if beneath even bodily slavery the finest races on earth 
 degenerate and become in time mere wrecks of humanity, 
 O ! what must be the effects of such a moral thraldom lying 
 with its whole weight on our countrymen for ages! — a thral. 
 dom which, masked in the guise of Christianity, kills the en. 
 ergies that divine religion quickens— brutalizes the feelings 
 which it refines — debases the nature which it exalts — in a 
 word, as thoroughly curses as ever it blesssed — and makes 
 the whole man, to which the gospel would have given the 
 swelling bloom of health, like some spent and palsied frame, 
 the shattered remnant of what it was ! 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 ROME BLASTS MAn's TEMPORAL STATE. 
 
 Such, then, is Rome. Like some parasitical plant which 
 embraces and kills the noblest trees, it twines itself with dead, 
 ly grasp around man's whole nature ; or like some noison 
 poured mto the veins, it sends its moral death-drugs through 
 his whole soul. And now, having seen how it must destroy 
 a people, it only remains to show how, in Ireland's case, it 
 HAS done so. And for simplicity's sake, we shall take up the 
 leading topics of the two first Parts of this work which have 
 not already been disposed of; and briefly applying our whole 
 line of argument to Ireland's financial, physical, social, and 
 political state, proceed to the completion of our demonstration. 
 
 
EOMB BLASTS xMAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 
 
 109 
 
 roofs of thy di- 
 how oft, when 
 r soul burned, 
 ignation at the 
 
 scorn ! And 
 36 priests who, 
 It, can not only 
 jster the while 
 ief, and speak 
 embodiment of 
 ly hope of Ire- 
 ise astounding 
 )ed Ireland be 
 been the inno- 
 sruel enslaver, 
 races on earth 
 
 of humanity, 
 hraldom lying 
 Tes! — a thral- 
 , kills the en- 
 s the feelings 
 t exalts — in a 
 1 — and makes 
 ave given the 
 palsied frame, 
 
 il plant which 
 self with dead. 
 I some poison 
 irugs through 
 MUST destroy 
 and's case, it 
 til take up the 
 k which have 
 ing our whole 
 I, social, and 
 lemonst ration. 
 
 Tub Financial.— Rome has impoverished Ireland indi- 
 rectlv by its influences, and direclly by its hnposts. 
 
 If she keeps her people sitting in darkness while others are 
 enlightened, steeped in vice while others are virtuous, and 
 their whole souls like a bow unstrung while others are nerved 
 with energy and life-then, unless God were to ram gold from 
 heaven, is their poverty as inevitable as eternal laws can 
 make it. Why, Rome's very holidays tend in this direction : 
 her calendar contains a fast or feast for every day in the year, 
 and demands the observance of seventy ^^ ^hese, exc usjve of 
 Sabbaths ; so that nearly a filth part of every « good Catholic s 
 lifetime is consumed in the worship of dead men and women ! 
 And what must be the effect of such continual interruptions 
 to business on a nation's wealth, and on all those habits which 
 are the springs of wealth? or how can the man who idles on 
 Monday and Wednesday, help feeling the unsettling effect 
 throughout the rest of the week ? . ^ * 
 
 If, then, Rome's very devotions tend to poverty, what must 
 be the influence of her vices and crimes? We have proved 
 that it is she that has filled the land with violence; at her 
 door then lie, of course, the disastrous consequences. It is 
 she that is mainly chargeable, not only with our enormous 
 military, constabulary, and jail expenditure-not only with 
 ^ur ruinous outlay on law and lawyers-not only with our 
 crushing poor-rates-not only with the actual expense of our 
 immoral habits themselves, but with all the calamitous effects 
 of them, direct and reflex, on the trade and progress of he 
 country. And who can pretend to estimate these ? ihink 
 of the loss sustaii^d by one disturbed district, or the injury 
 ir'^icted by a single gang of ruifians, before they come within 
 the grasp of the Taw at all ; and yet to all this positive loss you 
 musi add the still larger negative itern. You "^"« , ^"^f -°"'; 
 criminals^ cells, and estimate, not only the injury they inflict 
 on society, but the good they would have conferred on it, had 
 they only been v.rtuous-you must wend your way to our 
 ZZorlsJmd reckon the loss sustained by the flight of our best 
 people, who, in a better state of society, would have prospered 
 St home-you must then pass through every /o«;n and parish, 
 and calculate the loss incurred by the paralysis of our trade, 
 and the wretchedness of our agriculture ;-and, finally, you 
 must visit every stream and harbor, and reflect how many 
 capitalists our social disorder has driven from our s lores, and 
 how many more it has hindered from approaching them; all 
 
no 
 
 TIJK GHAND CAUSR. 
 
 this, and morp, you will be obliged to estimate, before you 
 can fornn a correct idea of the financial curse of Popery. 
 
 We have already seen a little of Rome's direct imposts, and 
 in truth but a little ; for the amount it wrings from tho star- 
 ving Irish is scarcely credible. Poverty itself brings no ex- 
 emption ; — we once knew a common char-woman to fast from 
 her dinner for days in order to procure iier " voluntary offer- 
 ing ;" and in various towns you see magnificent chapels now 
 rising to the skies, but while pleased with their beauty, you 
 perhaps little dream, that like the Egyptian pyramid's tliey 
 \fave been reared by the sweat of bond slaves, and owe their 
 existence mainly to the hard earnings of the poor. 
 
 We have shown how, during the horrors of the famine, 
 Rome fed on the alms of charity, and "gleaned in the rear of 
 starvation." It was during these horrors that the l*ope fled 
 to Gaeta ; and at the very time when tiie priests were appeal, 
 ing to Protestant liberality on behalf of their starving millions, 
 they were sending thousands of pounds to his "holiness;" 
 who, in return, sent them his blessing, and a few hundreds of 
 their own money to distribute amongst the dying ! No won- 
 der, truly, that our poor emigrants breathe freely when they 
 reach the shores of the west, and express themselves as thaidc- 
 ful for having escaped the exactions of their priests as those 
 of their landlords. No wonder that, with all their eHbrts to 
 " bring their friends out," they are never known to bring out 
 their priests ! and where an occasional priest does follow and 
 join them, no wonder that the first lesson they take pains to 
 teach him i$, that he is no longer in Ireland. " Sir," exclaimed 
 an Irish laborer on the banks of the Delaware, to a priest who 
 had insolently refused to take five dollars for some rite — 
 " Sir, do you think it is in Ireland you have me ?" 
 
 Nay, not only has Rome extracted the morsel from the 
 mouth of hunger, but outreged those feelings of our nature 
 which even barbarians are accustomed to respect. A yountr 
 pair bacome attached, and the priest often hastens tho mar! 
 riage for sake of the fee, although he knows they must bor- 
 row the money wherewith to pay him. Nay, one of our mis- 
 sionaries has detailed a case in which not only was the match 
 made by the priest, but the bride never saw the bridegroom 
 till she met him on the way to be married ! and he adds, that 
 when they met, the poor bride thus addressed her future 
 spouse — "May I make bold to ask what is your name V 
 But Rome's golden harvest is by the deathbed and the grave ; 
 
BOMB BLASTS MAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 
 
 Ill 
 
 before you 
 'opery. 
 inposts, and 
 m tho star- 
 rings no ex- 
 to fast from 
 mtary offer- 
 jlmpels now 
 )t)auty, you 
 'urnids tiiey 
 d owe tlieir 
 
 the famine, 
 1 the rear of 
 e Pope fled 
 ere ajipeal. 
 ng millions, 
 holiness ;" 
 jundreds of 
 No won. 
 when they 
 ts as thank, 
 ts as those 
 r ertbrts to 
 3 bring out 
 follow and 
 e pains to 
 exclaimed 
 priest who 
 »me rite — 
 
 from the 
 lur nature 
 
 A young 
 » tho mar- 
 must bor- 
 •four mis- 
 the match 
 ridegroom 
 adds, that 
 ler future 
 ■ name V 
 he grave ; 
 
 and in those solemn scenes where the most rugged nature has 
 melted,— where tho hand of extortion has let go its grasp, and 
 unkindness itself has been known to weep, she alone lias re- 
 mained unmoved ; and by working on a dying father s terrors, 
 so often robbed his children, even while weepmg over hiin, 
 that parliam- nt itself has been obliged to protect them by its 
 Charitable Bequests' Bill. Oh, think of a church of Uod thus 
 feeding like a vulture on the dead as well a.s the living . 
 Surely the bold highwayman id honorable in comparison to 
 the men who creep into the death-chamber, and, alike unmov- 
 ed by the groans of the dying and the anguish of the living, 
 do their pilfering work beneath the cloak of religion and the 
 forms of law ! 
 
 Nor must we blame the Irish priest alone ; Rome is every- 
 where the same spiritual maelstrom sucking down the wealth 
 of nations : and the successor of the fisherman who had nei- 
 ther " silver nor gold," has in all ages been the world a great 
 plunderer. While the whole slate revenue of Rome is but 
 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 of dollars, its church property is worm 
 400,000,000 uf francs, and yields a revenue o( 20,000,OUU 
 a-year.* Ay, and poor miserable Spain, unable to P'^y any 
 one else, is this moment paying the priests 50,000,000 ot dol. 
 lars per annum. Now, if bankmvf' nations are thus mulcted 
 even in these davs of Rome's impotence, imagme, it you can 
 the state of things when Europe lay in chains at her teet. 
 At one time a large portion of its entire property had been 
 drawn into her capacious jaws ; and it was to prevent her 
 from swallowing England up that the law of mortmain was 
 enacted ; while those who see the ruins of abbeys, cathedrals, 
 and monasteries which are thickly strewn over Europe, and 
 reflect on their enormous revenues, may form some idea ot the 
 pecuniary millstone which once hung on the necks of nations. 
 The Physical.— We have only space for a word or two on 
 the soil and climate of Popish lands. " What !" you exclaim, 
 " does Rome even mar the face of nature ?" Yes, dear read- 
 er, the ground was cursed for mm's first apostacy, and wliy 
 wonder that it should feel the effects of his last and greatest .' 
 And as if to show more clearly her scathing influence, it is 
 usually the finest countries which God has permitted Rome 
 to occupy, while the poorest have as commonly been assigned 
 to Protestantism. To the one he has given green Ireland, 
 fair France, and aunny Italy ; and to the other barren boot- 
 • Gavazzi, 13ih Orntion. 
 
ii 
 
 ! U 
 i. 
 
 112 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSE. 
 
 Iftnil niid Hftiidy Holland ; yet the latter are blessed, and the 
 forirKM- HO th(.r(jUKhly biiistod, that of Italy, tor instance, a late 
 travollfir could not help exclainiinjr, — " The devil has again 
 ent«ri'(l I'aradiHo :" and this, too, while Protestantism found 
 Britain n, paltry island, and America a vast wilderness, and 
 has niudn them the pride of the world ! It is the same in 
 Ireland ; Konio has possession of not only its best provinces, 
 but itN moMt romantic spots. To her belong Wicklow, Killar- 
 ney, UoHHtrcvor, and Lough Gill ; and who that has visited 
 thoHo lovi'ly Hcenes can forget the nuisances which a-"! found 
 in thdr midst — who can forget the filthy beggars, for instance, 
 who ill Killarney torment the tourist at every step like sum- 
 mer lYum in some sweet bower ; or help adopting the very 
 wordH of Daptist Noel, when gazing on a eimilar scene at 
 Killuloo : — 
 
 ** Dut in Ireland there is an omnipresent mischief, and 
 when you would let your thoughts repose among the sweet 
 influences of nature, then Popery looks in on you like a 
 spectre J or, if it be half concealed like a snake among the 
 flowers, 'there comes a token like a scorpion's sting,' warn, 
 ing you of its hateful presence. I felt it at Killarney, I felt 
 It at Ros«trnvor, and here it is again." Yes, and not only 
 can you trace the trail of this serpent along the ground, but 
 you snili" itH odors in the breeze of heaven. Cultivation affects 
 climnto, and cleanliness promoies health; and if to Popery 
 we are indebted for undrained bogs and filthy cabins, then it 
 is it Wo rnuBt mainly thank for that di mp which is the result 
 of tho one, and those diseases which are caused by both. If, 
 then. Popery injures even our salubrious clime, what report 
 can we expect from other lands ? Instance Italy, " the seat 
 of tho n(!ast;" and in the days of the Csesars, towns and 
 villages stood where the Pontine Marshes now send up their 
 poisonous vapors, and that malaria was but slightly felt which 
 is now tho scourge of the land. 
 
 But it i« in the race you see the chief physical effects of 
 Popery, Eden suflered much by the fall, but Adam suffered 
 more ; and we appeal to the reader if we have not proved that 
 those bleniiffhes which attach to our countrymen, are chiefly 
 ohaj'geable on Popery. The very body feels its curse — you 
 •ee the " mark of the Beast" not only on the " forehead" but 
 the frnnie ; and no marvel, when you think of the influence 
 of crime and misery on bodily strength and stature. The 
 oontruHt is remarkable between the Roman Catholic peasant 
 
 
BOME BLASTS MAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 
 
 113 
 
 essed, and the 
 instance, a lute 
 devil Jias again 
 ^sluntism found 
 k'ilderne.ss, and 
 is the same in 
 best provinces, 
 icklovv, Killar. 
 hat has visited 
 hich a*"^ found 
 re, for instance, 
 step like sum- 
 pting the very 
 milar scene at 
 
 mischief, and 
 nong the sweet 
 an you like a 
 ike among the 
 s sting,' warn, 
 illarney, I felt 
 s, and not only 
 le ground, but 
 Itivation affects 
 id if to Popery 
 cabins, then it 
 ih is the result 
 1 by both. If, 
 le, what report 
 ily, " the seat 
 rs, towns and 
 
 send up their 
 htlyfelt which 
 
 lical effects of 
 \dam suffered 
 not proved that 
 5n, are chiefly 
 ts curse — you 
 forehead" but 
 ' the influence 
 nature. The 
 iholic peasant 
 
 of Kerry, and the Protestant poaHimt of Antrlni ; and what is 
 yet more striking, between tlio Roman Catholic and the Pro- 
 testanl of Kerry itself. The mum contruHt is seen between 
 the Frenchman and the Englislimun ; and what demonstrates 
 this is owning not to anything nutural to those races, but to 
 some influence exerted vpon them, \h the fact that the stature 
 of the French has diminished, while that of the English has 
 increased. For, according to llaudot in his "Dechne of 
 France," the height required for a French infantry soldier in 
 1789, was but 5 feet 1 inch, and in 1832, a time of peace, it had 
 to be reduced to 4 feet 9 inches and 10 lines; while in Eng- 
 land, on the contrary, the minimum height 20 years ago was 
 5 feet 4 inches, and now it has riaen to T) feet 7. If such are 
 the effects of Popery on the body, what must be its influence 
 on ihe soul ? We appeal for answer to all Popish lands. 
 What a contrast is the Brazilian to tiie American, and the 
 Austrian to the Englishman !— or where was ever a finer race 
 than the ancient Andalusian ?— and what have the priests now 
 made them ?— " they took in hand a nation of heroes, and 
 they have produced a generation of hens."* In a word, no 
 matter how different the race, P oteHtants have evermhere the 
 same great moral features of rewimblancc ; and so have 
 Roman Catholics. And what singularly proves the degrading 
 power of Rome on the Irishman in particular, is that it affects 
 the very bravery which is his national quality. How can a 
 moral slave be a hero ? And so marHhul him under priests 
 as leaders, with crucifixes as ensigns, and you find him flymg 
 before Cromwell, before William, before the soldiers of 1798 ; 
 but place him in the ranks of the British army, where his 
 priest can no longer trample on him, and though he remains 
 a Papist, and is therefore the mo«t troublesome soldier in his 
 regiment, his natural spirit of bravery comes again, for it was 
 not dead but sleeping, drugged by the opiate of Popery— and 
 so he has contributed his full share of those laurels which 
 England wears on her brow ! 
 
 And thus we demonstrate that if the Irishman is worse 
 than other men; it his Rome which has made him so ; and, 
 oh ! it is melancholy to see this poor victim of her guilt wan. 
 dering the world, like some outcast from society, with that 
 reputation blasted which is more precious than life. True 
 religion gives a character, uiid in these days character is 
 
 • Bishop Mechior Cnno— quoted by Gnvazzi, 8th Oratios. 
 
114 
 
 THE GRAND CAtJSB. 
 
 cvorythinjr ; but, alas our poor countryman! Iiis vnry name 
 Ks ptiough to dose aguinst him tho avenues to succe.s«. Mow 
 often (k) you read in advertisements for clerks and servants, 
 the liumiliating mla bene— *' No {rislunan need apply !" Mow 
 often when in search of employment in English and Scotch 
 towns, IS the door rudely shut in his face the moment nis 
 brogue .9 heard! And how often have we known him on 
 that account to deny his country, and try to disguise his fatal 
 shibboleth ! Yes, and because the Ulster Protestant has a 
 character, and the Munster Roman Catholic has none, how 
 often does the latter in other lands attempt in his distress to 
 pass himself off as a native of Ulster ! What a fearful odds 
 Js against him here, when at the least he requires years o^ 
 good conduct to make the character with which a Scotchman 
 starts the first hour ! And what a pitiable condition is this to 
 00 reduced to; if he remains at home to be in dan -^er of 
 starving,— if he leaves it in quest of an honest livelihood, to 
 t)n still exposed to starvation,— and however innocent he mav 
 fjo, to find himself everywhere a shunned and suspected 
 man I *^ 
 
 The Social. — On tliis section we need scarcelv dwell. If 
 as we have shown, Rome violates those eternal principles on 
 which the existence of society depends ; surelv social dhordrr 
 at least must be the result. It follows inevitably from our 
 whole argument, that the direct tendency of Pope'ry is to lay 
 in the dust the entire social fabric. And it is truly wonder, 
 tul how distinctly its efTecls are seen in the general condition 
 ot its victims. It has smitten the nuin, and you see the results 
 on all that is his— in his filthy dwelling andill-trai.ied family, 
 his weed.grown fields and broken fences. The master mind 
 of the household is injured, and you see the effect on every, 
 thing around ; the mainspring of the watch is out of order 
 and It tells on the motion of every wheel. How truly exem- 
 p ihed have we already found this to be in our countryman's 
 MABiTd ; It only now remains to trace it in his Pursuits 
 
 Remember then, dear reader, how Christianity quickens, 
 and Popery kills, the energies of man ; how the one is like 
 the sun iii spring, waking all nature to life, and the other like 
 the rost in winter, oversj)reading it with the dreariness of 
 death ; and you have the reason, which some cannot, and 
 otners will not see, why there is as great a contrast between 
 i rofestant and Popish communities, as between the flowing 
 
 f. 
 
 p 
 
ROME BLASTS MAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 
 
 115 
 
 liis very namo 
 success. Mow 
 s and servants, 
 I npply !" Mow 
 Lsli urid Scotch 
 le moment nis 
 known him on 
 ■iguiso his fatal 
 rotostant has a. 
 has none, how 
 his di strips to 
 
 a fearful odds 
 aires years of 
 1 a Scotchman 
 iition is this to 
 i in danger of 
 
 livelihood, to 
 locent he may 
 and suspected 
 
 ;lv dwell. If, 
 principles on 
 social disorder 
 ibly from our 
 pery is to lay 
 truly wonder, 
 lerai condition 
 seethe results 
 rahied family, 
 ! master mind 
 ^ect on everv- 
 out of order, 
 / truly exem- 
 3oun try man's 
 
 'aRSUITS. 
 
 ity quickens, 
 } one is like 
 the other like 
 Jreariness of 
 
 cannot, and 
 rast beitween 
 
 the flowing 
 
 I 
 
 tide and the stagnant pool. How mournfully illustnitod in 
 Ireland's case ! How rnucli has ixien done l)y public and 
 nrivate nhilantropy to infuse a little Iifi3 into her slugiiish 
 
 I . . ' ... ^ 1 . 1 _-.:_..i „1,~ .-.tint.,... *,-, 
 
 vems 
 
 yet, like some erchausted patient, she continues tosuik 
 
 in spite of every restorative : each proves, at the best, but a 
 temporary stimulant whose effects disappear as soon as it is 
 withdrawn ; and when there does seem a slight amendment, 
 vou are afraid to trust it, and can never tell whether it may 
 be only like the occasional flicker of a dying lamp. 'I be 
 priest sits as a nightmare on the social energies, and presides 
 Whe evil genius of the stagnation he creates. And this is so 
 manifest, that could Ireland and Scotland exchange popula- 
 tions, the one would become a garden, and the other return 
 to the wilderness state ; and could each have its ancient 
 inhabitants restored, how soon would it resume its ancient 
 character! Is it not the same in all Popish lands ? Wiiat a 
 social contrast they present to Protestant ones, in spite of their 
 superior natural advantages— instance the two great European 
 veninsufus, Spain and Italy ! What prodigious coinmerciiil 
 faciliiies are theirs! Yet how long, think you, i/ie/r inhabi- 
 tants have dwelt in the woods of America, or on the swamps 
 of Holland, before they would have made them the homes of 
 commerce aufl wealth ? In truth, wherever Popery flourishes, 
 nothing is in vigor but Popery. Had it still reigned over 
 Europe, where would now have been its steamers, its railroads, 
 its forests of shippintr, or its ten thousand inventions, wliieih 
 are the wonder of the world 1 Nay, with all the surrounding 
 stimulus of that Protestantism which has created these how 
 much of them have Popish nations ijet ? Look at their inis- 
 erable towns, with the grass on the streets, and the people 
 lonn<nn<r about as though motion was a burden ; or their be.st 
 seaports'; with a few paltry craft, and their finest harbors, 
 almost like that of Tyre, a " place for fishermen to spread 
 their nets ;"— everything «</// fs though they were asleep, or 
 like some blighted forest which hears not the voiceof spring ; 
 and all because they are, in reality benumbed and stunned 
 beneath the stroke of this moral torpedo! . ,. 
 
 Moreover we impeach Popery as the grand indirect hin- 
 drance of our social progress ; as the parent, for instance, of 
 that feudalism whose remains still so much impede it. That 
 curse cannot exist under a pure Christianity ; its spirit can- 
 not hut exist under Paganism and Popery. And so we find 
 that, if brought forth by the former, it was, at least, brought 
 up by the latter ; flourished mont in Rome's palmiest days ; 
 
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 THE GRAND CAUSB. 
 
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 received Us deadly wound at the Reformation ; and in every 
 country has just decreased n.s pure Protestantism has increased. 
 And It MUST bo so. Popery being the intensest form of spi- 
 ritua despotism not only has the strongest affinity for civil and 
 social despotism, but creates that social condition from which 
 they necessarily spring. VVe have seen that the man who is 
 accustomed to crouch before his spiritual superior, soon comes 
 to crouch before his social superior. Slavery becomes his 
 state : and once divide society into haughty priests and pros- 
 tratc people, and it will, of consequence, divide itself into 
 barons and serfs, masters and slaves, and produce, through 
 all Its ramifications, those various forms of potty tyranny 
 beneath which Irel.md, and all other Popish countries groan. 
 Instance our chiet social grievance, landlord tyrranv; and is 
 It not, m all our Provinces, mitigated in proportion to their 
 Irotestantism, from Connaught to Ulster? Just because 
 I rotestantism by begetting all those qualities which improve 
 tie man, renders any extensive oppression impossible; for, if 
 It ooes not so improve the landlord's own heart that he will 
 uoi oppress, it so elevates the tone of society that he dare not. 
 And this healthy tone is, after all, not only the bnst preventive 
 of abuses but, in the long run, the only elfectual one : for not 
 only do all useful laws spring from it, but without it they are 
 comparatively worthless. Now, wo have demonstrated that 
 I opory either destroys or prevents the existence of such a 
 tone; and it follows, that the landlord tyranny against which 
 our priests exclaim would at the least be greatly mitigate.l but 
 lor theniselves vVhat landlord would dare attempt in Kent or 
 the Lothians the same acts of cruelty which are committ^'d 
 with impunity in Gahvay ? And the Tenant-Right leaders 
 themselves admit that their chief hindrance is the want of 
 that lofty, virtuous public feeling, which is the best means of 
 overawing the oppressor ; which would compel both landlord 
 and legisature to listen to their claims; and which nothing 
 out the blessed Bible has ever yet created. 
 
 Here, then, we have a monument of Rome's destroyin-r 
 power mournfully instructive— a country at once a garden 
 and a grave ; indented by harbors without a sail, pervaded 
 by rivers whose banks are still ; with above the finest clime 
 unavailed of, beneath the richest mines unwrou^ht, around 
 the most fertile soil untillod ; and inhabited by a nice, which 
 '^xrVl P^'tshave few superiors amongst the sons of men. 
 Well, let the extent of the ruin at least serve to convince us 
 
ROME BLASTS MAn's TEMPOllAL STATR. 
 
 117 
 
 n ; nnd in every 
 mt hus increased, 
 isest form of spi- 
 lity for civil and 
 ition from wliicli 
 ; the man who is 
 erior.fioon comes 
 ery be(iofne3 his 
 priests and pros- 
 Jivide itself into 
 iroduco, through 
 r potty tyranny 
 sountrios groan, 
 tyrrany; and is 
 portion to their 
 Just because 
 I wliich improve 
 possible; for, if 
 art tliat he will 
 
 at he DARE NOT. 
 
 I best preventive 
 ual one ; for not 
 hout it they are 
 iiionstrated tiiat 
 ence of such a 
 ' against which 
 ly mitigated but 
 empt in Kent or 
 
 are committed 
 L-Right leaders 
 is llie want of 
 
 best means of 
 l both landlord 
 
 wjjich nothing 
 
 e's 
 
 destroying 
 once a garden 
 
 sail, pervaded 
 he finest clime 
 rought, around 
 
 a race, which 
 3 sons of men. 
 ;o convince us 
 
 \ 
 
 of the malignity of the cause. And when wc behold Ireland 
 lecming with natural stores, yet starving; covered wilh 
 improvement societies, vol a desert ; and roceiving millions 
 of aid, yet a beggar ;— when we see Scotchmen in our banks, 
 and Irishmen in </iejV prisons; foreign ships doing our trade, and 
 our countrymen not the crews but the cargoes ; when, in siiort, 
 we look on every jail and poorhouse, soldier and policeman, oh! 
 lei it give fresh zeal to our evangelistic eflijrts, and fervor to our 
 prayers on behalf of a land on which God has so long per- 
 mitted Rome to do her worst,— as if He thereby designed it 
 to be a SPECIAL warning to all nalionb to be aware of her 
 blasting power. 
 
 The Political.— Wo charge on Popery mainly Ireland's 
 political evils. First, but for it those grievances which exist 
 amongst us would either have been mitigated or long since 
 removed. There is a moral state which invites misrule, and 
 another which makes it impossible. Demosthenes keenly felt 
 this when he told the Athenians that even were Philip dead, 
 their conduct would raise up another Philip. It has been the 
 experience of all ages, that rulers will enslave if the people 
 will let them ; and that the only effectual breastwork against 
 the encroachments of the one, is the elevation of the other. It 
 is only below a certain moral level that a nation can be tram- 
 pled on, and the moment it gets above this it flings oil the 
 oppressor. Hence, Popish lands are the home of despotism, 
 and Protestant lands the sanctuary of freedom. Hence Ame- 
 rica, Scotland, England, have flung off the tyrant s yoke. If, 
 then, Ireland is in bondage, as some maintain, it must bo 
 because she lacks those qualities which would have secured 
 liberty for her just as certainly as for them ; and hence those 
 priests who loudly complain of her thraldom, are themselves 
 convicted as indirectly the cause ; for had any other nation 
 than England been placed by her side, would not the result 
 have been the same ? The same, did we say ?— Let the pre- 
 sent state of Europe answer the question. It was in England s 
 power to oppress Ireland to any extent for aught such a priest- 
 ridden nation could have hindered her ; and had England con- 
 tinued Popish, all history is a fable if she would not have 
 oppressed her. Thus it follows, that the political blessings 
 Ireland enjoys, have sprung from England's Protestantism, 
 while such political wrongs as she suffers are directly owing to 
 her own Popery. Nay, in truth, the worst grievances she 
 
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 11 ' • I 
 
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 118 
 
 THE oaAND CAUSE. 
 
 has ever endured, are directly chargeable on Rome. Were 
 not those " disabilities," for instance, of which Roman Calho- 
 licr have so loudly complained, in great part of their own 
 procuring ? Did not Rome convince our fathers, by too many 
 unmistakable proofs, that they must either bind her, or them- 
 selves submit to be bound 1 And when they saw that she 
 never got her hands loose but the first use she made of her 
 liberty was to spring on Ihemselvea, what else could they do 
 but bind her again ? 
 
 So much for our political grievances. We next assert that 
 l^opery robs of their benign influence most of our political 
 blessings. Instance its influence on our laws. A highly vir- 
 tuous state of society makes somewhat tolerable the worst laws, 
 while a VICIOUS state renders mischievous the best ; the one 
 turns the evil into good, and the other the good into evil. In 
 bcotland, for example, those taxes on servants, dogs, &c., 
 Irom which we are exempt, have proved blessings, by leading 
 the people to a simpler style of living; while our exemption 
 has proved a curse, by encouraging in us a more expensive 
 one. Jn Ulster, again, the poor-law works so well, that 
 several poor-houses are almost self-supporting ; while in Mun- 
 ster several unions are bankrupt, and the very guardian's board 
 rooms are the scenes of party violence. And had the Scotch 
 Fresbyterians got those £8,000,000 of relief which we so 
 shamefully mismanaged ; judging by their whole character, 
 we arc entitled to assert that they would have annihilated 
 pauperism in Scotland. Alas, it is the same, with almost 
 every other efl!brt of legislation. O'Connell boasted he could 
 'drive a coach and six through any Act of Parliament ;" and 
 thus, in direct contradiction to the whole aim of his life, un- 
 consciously proclaimed how little mere legislation can do if it 
 has not a virtuous community on which to operate. 
 
 Instance, again, our glorious constUution. Take the very 
 bulwark of liberty, trial by jury; and we have demonstrated 
 by various facts that Popery has in numerous cases made it 
 an absolute mockery, and that justice would be infinitely 
 safer in the hands of the judge. Hence the f/ii*nds of truth 
 and order are rejoicing in the late " Justice's Act," which 
 virtually transfers so much power from thd juries to the 
 magistrates. So utterly incompatible is the genius of Popery 
 with that of liberty,-— -so unsuited does it seem to any other 
 state than one of slavery,— that even this trifling approxima- 
 tion towards despotism has done wonders in quieting those 
 
 m. 
 
)n Rome. Were 
 ch Roman Catlio- 
 art of their own 
 lers, by too many 
 ind her, or tliem- 
 ey saw that she 
 she made of her 
 Ise could they do 
 
 e next assert that 
 i of our political 
 s. A highly vir- 
 )lethe worst laws, 
 le best ; the one 
 x)d into evil. In 
 I'ants, dogs, &c., 
 isings, by leading 
 le our exemption 
 more expensive 
 cs so well, that 
 g', while in Mun- 
 guardian's board 
 id had the Scotch 
 ef which we so 
 whole character, 
 have annihilated 
 me, with almost 
 boasted he could 
 'arliament ;"and 
 Ti of his life, un- 
 ation can do if it 
 perate. 
 
 Take the very 
 ve demonstrated 
 IS cases made it 
 lid be infinitely 
 fi'ii^inds of truth 
 e's Act," which 
 Id juries to the 
 :enius of Popery 
 !m to any other 
 fling approxima- 
 1 quieting those 
 
 ROME BLASTS MAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 119 
 
 horse-whipping priests, who, turning our very constitution 
 agamst itsf,lf, trampled down tl»e liberty of whole districts 
 be^mse they knew that no Popi.^h jury would convict them. 
 
 lake one other bulwark of British liberty, the "elective 
 franchise Between the landlord and the pr'iest this has also 
 been little better than a mockery j for the people mast aon- 
 eraliy vote for whatever omdicfate these masters direct. If 
 they disobey the former, they are ejacted ; if they rebel against 
 the latter they are "danrmed." "Whoever," exclaimed 
 l;ather John O Sullivan from the altar, on the eve of an elec 
 tion for KeTry—" whoever will vote for that renegade, the 
 Jvnight of Kerry, I won't prepare him for death, but will let 
 ftan die like a beast, neither wiH I baptize his children."* 
 rancy, then, these people betweer^ those two tyrants— the one 
 threatening tenrporal ruin, and the other eternal I It is all 
 very well when both support the same candidate ; and right 
 u'Z ? J^f ^^^ P^*" creatures to escape by bemg simply 
 robbed of their rights as freemen. But the landlord, being 
 olten a Protestant, is frequently opposed by the priest : and 
 hen, irnagme if you can the dilemma of the people I Still 
 me Scylla of beggary is nothing to the Chary bdis of perdition : 
 the terrors of the confessional far exceed even those of the 
 crowbar brigade ;" and so the priest* generally carry it 
 over the landlords, have frequently boasted that they could 
 return cow-boys to parliament," and have often led their 
 dupes to the hustings when they scarce even knew the can- 
 didate s na.oe ! Thus one of the dearest rights of freemen is 
 Dy Popery transformed into not otdy a yoke of bondage, but 
 such an instrument of ruin, that thousands of the people would 
 deem its withdrawal the greatest mercy that England could 
 extend them. Yet these priests are the champions of popular 
 Uberty /—and one of the standing themes of their platform 
 harangues rs the deficiency of the suffrage, and the necessity 
 for Its extension I] ' 
 
 Finally, Rome is the direct cause of owr pditical agitations. 
 it has been well said, that it is her nature to produce tyranny 
 When she is in power, and rebellion when she is not ; and this 
 single sentence is the key to the political intrigues of the priest, 
 hood m every land. How has it been exemplified in Ireland, 
 making her entire history one of disafTection and rebellion r 
 ur who so simple us still to doubt, that the real aim of the 
 
 • See Progress of Confessional, p. 66» 
 
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130 
 
 tBfi GRAND CAtrsE. 
 
 Irish priesthood, through all their political struggles, has not 
 been equality but ascendency, not liberty for the people but 
 supremacy for themselves ? Shall >Ve call it charity or infatu- 
 ation which refuses to see that the real meaning of Irish agi- 
 tation is the restlessness of priestly restraint? Can any man 
 believe that the love of popular liberty is the reason why these 
 reverend agitators have kept the country simmering for ages, 
 and sown it thick with the seeds of lawlessness and crime ; or 
 doubt that the real yoke which galls them is our fkekdom, 
 and that had we but the laws of Italy or Spain, which degrade 
 the people and exalt the priests, they would be as loyal as 
 their brethren of those realms ? Talk of Popery as the friend 
 of liberty ! whose every dogma breathes despotism, and whose 
 every act exemplifies it I That any Protestant should ever 
 doubt its intolerance, because its priests have had sometimes 
 the hardihood to deny it, is to us a matter of perfect astonish- 
 ment. Surely the last two years might be sufficient to open 
 the blindest eyes. Those priests, during the revolutions of 
 1848, with a subtlety altogether worthy of them, appeared 
 foremost in the" republican ranks, and were the noisiest of the 
 crowds who shouted, *' liberty, equality, fraternity," — were 
 all the while quietly waiting the turn of the tide ; and so are 
 NOW the avowed leaders of that dreadful conspiracy which is 
 formed against the freedom of Europe. Liberty ! Are they 
 not making every effort which conscious guilt and terror can 
 suggest to extinguish the spirit of freedom in the world ? la 
 not Pio None at this moment the rallying point of all Europe's 
 trembling despots ? Has he not heaped paternal benedictions 
 on ihe perjured tyrant of Naples, and the unprincipled usur- 
 per of France ? And is not his own despotism so intolerable, 
 that he needs two nations to protect hiiji from the violence of 
 his oppressed children ? Liberty ! His own poor subjects 
 cannot wring from the " Holy Father" one single drop of lib- 
 erty's sweet cup. And is not the whole Romish Church pub- 
 licly rejoicing in a series of the most shocking outrages, ever 
 committed against liberty and humanity, by Louis Napoleon 
 Bonaparte ? Did not Cullen himself, in a late letter to the 
 Univers, echo the blasphemy now ringing from every conti- 
 nental altar, and ascribe these atrocities to the special inter- 
 ference of Providence? Yet he is the head of those Irish 
 priests who have for years been the champions of freedom ! — 
 and who now, while lavishing their blessings on Europe's 
 basest tyrants, are defaming its most hallowed patriots ! In* 
 
ROME BLASTS MAN's TEMPORAL STATE. 121 
 
 tTdoI"Vtr!^.t' ''^rr'^'T ^"^ ^^'"bol Of outraged 
 
 brmt.o7,h '^^ ' t'''"^^'' "^"^^ gladness beamed on the 
 '7lf'\''T'^'^ the seowl of vexatTon lowered upon thei s^ 
 and when both shores of the Atlantic resounded S slmuLs 
 of welcome to the Magyar hero, their conduct clearly estS 
 that they would have shouted more joyfully over^ ™« 
 How often have we heard Irish R Jan CatL^s speak vvhh 
 pTZ:1roi"'lT^ '%"'""'• '^"'^J^"^" '^ ^y - that t„d' f 
 fhTZerSTot'rtM^&lt-'S \"t ""^^'"'"^ 
 
 ana Mexico ! Yes, the poor creatures little know that th« 
 freedom that they enjoy even here is owing to P otJstant Lm 
 
 o herToil*h''r'^ ''""'r ^°P'^''' " -ouW fare no b er h™a 
 other Popish lands; that in Protestant countries only can 
 Roman Cathoitcs breathe and speak freely, without d.^ad'n^ 
 W m every companion, and an arreS in everv corned-! 
 and that ,f over siich Popish lands as France Zr^nTh'; 
 
 l:rg1n vai JtrXot It^Zl ^ '"'^ ^^'^ °' ^^^^'^ -^■ 
 Thus Popery in various ways blasts man's temporal state 
 By demorahzmgu degrades, by doing both it impoverish^ 
 Bv wthhT''"?'"^, ''. ^""''^'^ ^^g^^des and demora Ses 
 llJ !^ a'""^ knowledge it enslaves and beggars, a „dbv 
 hese t renders the acquisition of knowledge impracticable^ 
 of 11 ^''TJ^^^^ ^ oo"'-«e of action and reactionToi„„^^^^^^ 
 of cause and effect constantly reproducing each other A^d 
 
 twin Jt ir' '"!?"' °^ ^«°^°«"' this great redTragon has 
 
 Sy on thafdirnr^ '"' '''''' '°'y ^^^'^^' '" - --y 
 
 Slb^ y! H- 1 r"l'^'"^"f seems hopeless, and death 
 thri Li, ; • , think of the unblushing effrontery with which 
 the Insh priests are this moment lauding it as God's choicest 
 blessing to man. Think of Dr. Cullen^ whie doing h^u 
 
 K leftToTtUe'to'h t^"l^'"" "''u^'^'^'^ his prelctso^ 
 Rome < A^c r A ■ ^''"''' ''^^'"g the hardihood to say, that 
 Kome has been the instructress and civilizer of all naii^snf 
 the earth. Every noble and useful institution UiTweZsefs 
 has ongrnated with her ; and to her are due the presZ!^Zof 
 the arts and sciences in the ase of darkn..s ^«^ 'A^ir -'^- - 
 
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 122 
 
 THE GRAND CATTSE. 
 
 and diffusion at a later period ! /"* Ay, these are the terms 
 in which "the Primate of all Ireland" addressed Christendom 
 in the nineteenth century ! If he had meant the most cutting 
 sarcasm on his religion,' he could not have expressed himself 
 better ; and this single sentence proves how utterly hopeless 
 are the men whose own Chief is m reckless as to make such 
 an outrageous assertion in the very fuce of the world. When 
 at the late Dublin " Defence" Dernonstration, Mr. Moore ven- 
 tured to hint that a Pope could persecute, this " head of the 
 Irish Church" in holy horror stopped him, assured him that 
 Rome was "the parent of liberty," and proved it by refusing 
 him liberty to explain ! Oh, if such is our metropolitan pri- 
 mate, what must be our rural priests ! If he could thus speak 
 in the face of Christendom, what, think you, will they stop at 
 amongst a peasantry whom by such fearful contrivances they 
 have so well prepared to believe any falsehoods ! If he thus 
 ventured to bully a member of Parliament, how must they 
 handle their degraded slaves ! And if that member did not 
 dare to open his lips in reply to a statement so outrageous, 
 what must be the prostrate vassalage in which the common 
 people crouch and cower at the feel of their ghostly tyrants ! 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 ROME BLIGHTS MAn's ETERNAL PROSPECTS. 
 
 We have now reached a part of our subject before which 
 all the rest must fade like the lamp in the light of day. It is 
 the unceasing assurance of One who has the best right to 
 know, that in comparison to eternity all which ever engrossed 
 us in time is as the dancing bubble on the stream. He assures 
 us that we stand on a narrow isthmus, with on one side an 
 ocean of bliss, and on the other a lake of fire ; and He conjures 
 us by 9 -ch motives as' might wake the rocks and stir the ten- 
 ants r 
 there' 
 dition 
 do 
 
 so 
 
 he grave, to seek the one and flee the other. If, 
 », we find Rome exposing its dupes to that fiery per- 
 hile pretending to save them from it, and in order to 
 borrowing the name of Jesus, and stealing the pass- 
 words 'of heaven, then are all its other atrocities angel inno- 
 cence to this ; and it stands forth to the execralion of the uni- 
 verse as the most dreadful plot against the human soul that 
 ever was hatched in the depths of hell. 
 
 * Addret»to the Corporation of Drogheda, Aug. Vl, 1851. 
 
ROSPECTS. 
 
 Aug. Xf, 1851. 
 
 ROME BLIGHTS MAN's ETERNAt PROSPECTS. 123 
 
 It. y ^..Ms thofarth, could be po,s,sil,ly fit for t|,e skirs ? 
 
 " was made : nothing, ,|,erefore, rema ns fmm Teh h eT» 
 spnna bu. h,s own infinite exeellenee. 'Tis 1 ,e slme wf,h 
 
 hL ,1 °""T'- . ''""''' ''" '"•' '""■'y leave he rblLl^e 
 hind them when they come down from heaven on errand, of 
 
 ™^ir;e r'ro^^ietd:r''?;vi'i,er™"F" ^«" 
 
 Z, iJf ? .' '" ""'' happiness w(/,o„,, onr truest hapni' 
 nem .a found mllm, and consists not so much in u,k,remi^ 
 
124 
 
 THE GRAND CATTSE. 
 
 fi !■ 
 
 what we are. We see it in the serenity of many a cottager, 
 and the suicide of many a prhice ; in the dark scowl of vil- 
 lainy, and the sweet smile of kindness; and even in the peevish 
 face of the child when nauffhty, and his beaming countenance 
 when good. If, therefore, you would make us happy in any 
 world, there is but one way — make us good. Substitute in 
 our hearts one set of affections for another, radiant kindness 
 for lowering malignity, transparent truth for sneaking false- 
 hood, noble generosity for despicable selfishness, open frank- 
 ness for sullen suspicion, in a word, ethereal holiness for foul 
 pollution ; -and is it not perfectly manifest, that such a mere 
 exchange of affections were to pass from hell to heaven, and 
 that wilhout this no external enjoyments could ;naterially 
 avail ? 
 
 Now, to effect this change is the grand object of the gospel. 
 Its whole aim is to purify the heart. By doing this, it nips 
 both sin and misery ifl the bud, and thus necessarily secures 
 happiness on earth, and meetness for heaven. Here is its 
 blessed plan, which, for sim;tlicity of design and perfection of 
 success, is worthy of its glorious Author. Here is neither 
 mystery nor magic, but the most perfect system of adaptation. 
 By the Divine Spirit thus turning a man from sin to holiness, 
 he must become a good and therefore a happy man. 
 
 Look now to false systems of religion, and they nerer once 
 aim at the heart ; on the contrary, Satan's grand object seems, 
 throughout them all, to be to prevent the entrance of one holy 
 feeling. Their whole round, of worship is a substitution of 
 the formal for the spiritual. Everything is designed for the 
 senses, and nothing for the heart ; so that their most imposing 
 ceremonials are but pompous mockery, and their devoutest 
 worshipper a whited sepulchre. Yet is not this a perfect pic- 
 ture of Rome ? In her system, all is pardon — regeneration 
 is unknown — salvation in sin, never salvation jTro/w sin. The 
 very term holiness is bereft of its meaning, and made a mystic 
 sign — so we have holy water, salt, oil, clay, wells, loughs, 
 trees — everything but a holy heart. All is external — penance 
 of the body for sorrow of soul, confession to the priest for con- 
 trition before God, corporeal sufferings on earth, and material 
 fires in purgatory. Even the means of grace are made sub- 
 slitules for grace. Those pipes and conduits of the waters of 
 life, whose whole virtue lies in their connection with the 
 Fountain, are substituted for the waters they were meant to 
 convey ; so you have devotions whose value is their number, 
 
ROME BLIGHTS MAn's ETERNAL "pROSPECTS. 125 
 
 noMheIr fervor-the/ac/ of their performance is everythins 
 
 doT '\vT"'' '' f'. '"^^ ''^' '^'^ ^'""^ sanctify rS 
 
 conne °tion ZV"" '?i ^°^ ' ^"'"'"■""^ P'«" '^^ most beautiful 
 connection between the m ans and the end ; but what con 
 nect,on is there between holy water and a holy li e-he u^n 
 
 nX"lrZl r"^ ' ''^^^'"^ '^^"'■' ' The o'ne reli. oTcan. 
 not but make holy, yet it is a "damnable heresy •" The other 
 
 would ifal" " '[ "T^ ^"^^'^ "^'«'^ '-'^ 'he witch'Is'of Mac e h 
 Oh ?f r '";'''"^'^' y^' '' ^^ '''« •■^''«i"" °f »''« holy God f 
 Oh I this system can save, of course so can pa.mnism • fo^ 
 Its scheme of salvation is precisely similar. DoCu say we 
 
 b^vs in wh fe n r'%' "' ^ '""'"^''" '•°^^«' surrounded by 
 oberve T.i ml^?^'' ''" ''" ^T'^^t scamps in the parish^ 
 ODserve 1 is mystic movements, his bows and cenuflexions • 
 row turmng to the altar, -and then to the peop e^ Snrthe 
 
 z:t:i:? :.r,r'^-' r' ^;^ ^° '''- oth'^rirnd^r^m"^ 
 
 is to r^utter n 1 '' ''"'''^ l''°^'' «"^ ''^''" ^e does speak, 
 lerstanr AnW .1 """"^'" "'" P'"P^" "'''h^'" ^ear nor un! 
 
 [nd/erl if t. n'' '^""' ^'''"""^' ^evotionless looks I 
 indeed, it the endless prayers of the Roman Catholic had 
 
 n'n " Yerr''^'"^,P"^"' '" ^""^^ -' ^"^ beThe^ures ^ol 
 nien \ et observe he scenes of abomination enacted at every 
 holy lough and we . Visit St PntnV.I-'^ «,«ii ""^ . , '^^^v 
 eve— <!PP tl,r.c^ ^.. , J i- ratiicK s well on midsummer 
 
 evt-see those crowds of devotees, with bare feet and tied no 
 heads,-some running in circles, some kneeling Tn groups'^ 
 
 omo jumping about like maniacs, most of then"So erfd whh 
 dus and sweat not a few with blood, and all taking incred b e 
 pums that neither trowsers nor petticoats shall protect the r 
 
 nees from the sharp stones ; while from the who e crowd a 
 liornd din continues to rise to heaven. And you cull Z de 
 
 air of tlf ? "'"'^ P""'"' ''"^ *'>''«^^ °^^r t''« spot the 
 ror 1,J' '' """"'■ "^^''^ '^'^''^'^ «"^ struck w th hor. 
 
 ro , and perceiving many of them intoxicated with religious 
 fervor and all-potent whiskey, and warming into violenc? be 
 fo e rnulnight, at w „-ch time the distraction^as at its dim x" 
 
 al deLTed '' 'd""^ ^^g-'a'^-" ^ «'^»^ ^f mind no'j 
 easily described. Do you say the priests are not accou.ita- 
 bk, for such scenes ? Then road a little farther :-" On thl" 
 occasion, the Irish Catholic clergy were the mad priests of 
 
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120 
 
 THB GRAND CATTSE. 
 
 thfl«f bnonliniiiilinn orpirs — the fomonlors of fury, tho setters 
 on to Nlrili', the iniHcliicvous ministors of the dtbasrmeiit of 
 their |)('(t()h>, h-ndiiiir th"ir aid to plunge iheir '■•redulous con- 
 (fr('«;iiiii»tiM in fcrrmoniniis horrors."* Thus, under their own 
 prieniH' itiK'.r.ia/ direction, iheir very prayers are made pretexts 
 for Hiiniing. Instead of heini; a means of removing sin, they 
 are tnach- the purchase-money for greater indulgence in it'; 
 find iheir rounds of devotion are designed to clear scores with 
 llie Most High, in order to begin iniquity de novo! 
 
 Hut even supposing such things were not so, and that the 
 iittiumt w«« could charge on this church was mere for. 
 nni/ili/, you will recollect what this m»ans. What would you 
 cull profession of penitence which is not felt, and of desires 
 fl)r liolineHH which are not cherished ? What else but a 
 mockery — a lie? And this is presented to tho Holy One, 
 helhrn whom angels veil their faces — and as Rome's best ser. 
 liicfi ! Ho that unlesi^ He who denounced tho Pharisees for 
 Biich guilty homage has since changed his mind — unless He 
 who iihhorH hypocrisy every whore, accepts it at his altar — 
 unh'NK the august Sovereign of worlds takes pleasure in 
 niiimtnerieH with which any mortal would feel insulted — the 
 worNliip of Homo must be an abomination in his eyes. If it 
 were either pleasirig to God or profitable to man, would you 
 not nt leuHl see some signs thereof in the priests themselves? 
 You Niiy they " fast oft ;" well, to judge by their portly forms, 
 the cxerciHc s^ems to igree with them. You assert they keep 
 Lent most Hcru|)ulously ; be it so, they seem to thrive a's well 
 on suit (isli as the three Hebrew cliildren on pulse and lentiles. 
 You Hiiy their prayers are manif.ld — we deny if not ; we see 
 their Ureviuries in their hands, even on the tops of the coaches. 
 Hut iir(! they indeed God-fearing nipji ?— do their souls melt 
 with \\u' /ove of .Testis ? l^et our previous pages answer. 
 There In only too much reason to fear that many of them are 
 InCiilelH In heart. «' Do you know," asked a Kerry priest of 
 n gentlenmn well known to the author — " Do you know what 
 religion I am of? — you think me a Catholic priest, but in 
 reality I nm n Mohammedan. I believe Mohammed was as 
 ^ood n teiioher of morals as Christ, and far more successful ; 
 when other inenns failed, he employed the sword, and beyond 
 a doiiht It is the liest means of propagating morals and reli- 
 gion ! I" Oh ! the judgment-day will reve'al the fearful pro. 
 
 • M'Gnvin's Protestant, pp. 403, 404. 
 
" fury, Ihn setters 
 le dibnsrmerit of 
 >ir '"•ivdulous con- 
 i, under tlieir own 
 lire rriiidi' preti xis 
 moving sin, tliey 
 ndulgcnce in it ; 
 
 clear scores with 
 
 novo ! 
 
 \ so, and that the 
 WHS mere for- 
 
 What would you 
 It, and of desires 
 tVhat else but a 
 
 the Holy One, 
 Rome's best ser. 
 
 ho Pliarisees for 
 nind — unless He 
 
 1 it at his altar — 
 ^kes pleasure in 
 ;el insulted — the 
 I his eyes. If it 
 
 man, would you 
 csfs themselves ? 
 heir portly forms, 
 1 assert they keep 
 to thrive as well 
 >ulse and lentiles. 
 ly it not ; we see 
 ps of the coaches, 
 their souls melt 
 s piiges answer, 
 mny of them are 
 I Kerry priest of 
 3 you know what 
 ic priest, but in 
 ihammed was as 
 nore successful ; 
 ord, and beyond 
 morals and reli. 
 I the fearful pro- 
 
 4. 
 
 MMB flLIOHTt MAH'i ITKlWAt MOSP.CM. 127 
 
 cess through which the mind of mnny an intelliirent Driest has 
 
 of hi; f.nl^ ■ ' I • "'^'"' ^T"" Muynrnnh, we have little doLbt 
 ot h,s fanatical sincerity ; but onco clear of its cloomy clois 
 ters, It would be strange indeed if «„n,o of the lighlwhS 
 
 vve will admit that he believes much of Rome's worst mum 
 
 f h! il •* . ' ^^y ''^ sitjcerely thinks Rome can reverse 
 the divine aphorism, " To obey is iKHtor than sacrifice ''and 
 can ever make right wrong. Wo will allow tim h?is con 
 v.nced God IS at certain times oir.ndml with fleVhrneaf and 
 propitiated by fish, and that the f;,od which is gZ ^Thurt 
 day IS pernicious on Friday. Wo will grant that in al ti S 
 and more, he may be a devout boliover.^ But hark i-hes 
 us telling that trembling mothnr on whoso brow s ,s distres 
 that he has prayed her darling child a certain length out of 
 purgatory, but that it wil! need so many mormasses which 
 m Rome's vocabulary means so much more mley 'to n av 
 him wholly out. The poor croaturo believes himilbutorn 
 
 u^ etL^:!rr-^- > "i^' ^'"/- -»"' - unTarita leTr 
 •suspecting hat man's honesty /~a man whom one such act 
 
 nd^hat'of a'fr/r^"'? '" t""*^'"^ ''' ' fanaticalmaniTc 
 
 "ethi^^;^^t'r::^::;i7£'hr^E;s^ 
 
 SeTanTSed ^n^ ^3.^ ^''"'''"^"^ '^^^ «" ^^^ ^- 
 
 Fellow-Christians, what can you nnv to all fhi« 1 n^u^^A 
 
 our degraded countrymen, with man/y^hom tlsfhop t 
 
 arunkenjit! Can you say suoh creatures are meet for Ha 
 angel.c throng ? Then unless there in a pur.«?orv wher^ 
 else must they go ? View that hoary wrcUd"^ hem .nTbe^ea h 
 
 withTl'-'r^'r^^'^"^ y^"''^-'''' '"""'« P-ps sained 
 wi h blood, and his priest the keeper of tho horrid secret FT^ 
 w, I soon enter eternity-^, he Jf What p? e i h fi t fo^' 
 --heaven .? One starts at the thouL'ht fi it „ i;..i • V 
 bed on the body of that dying aSlIw n^cL.^ci ' l^t 
 th«t can purify his soul ? or even if there were a pur'llorv 
 what more virtue could itssufK-ringw poss-ss than Those eaS 
 penances, in spite of which he lived a wretch ? And if h. 
 were admitted to heaven, what would it so ve him ? If tt« 
 whole church of Rome were translated thither bodHy. a he 
 
 t 
 
 ! 
 
128 
 
 THE GRAND CAUSB. 
 
 I ■! 
 
 IS or ever was in her palmiest days, wlint could this avail her, 
 unless you suppose that place :o be the heaven of the poets of 
 Crreeco or the prophet ot Mecca ? But if you grant it is a 
 place of transcendent holiness, whose enjployments, and 
 ENJOYMENTS too, Consist in serving God ; then, what happiness 
 could It braig to a church which regards virtue as a bore- 
 absolution from it a blessing— the Sabbath a weariness— and 
 prayer a penance? Why, such a heaven would be utterly 
 insupportable to her genuine votaries. Its bloom would be 
 dismal, and its purity hateful to them. The holier its throngs, 
 they would be to them the more revoltinjr ; the sweeter its 
 strains, thoy would grate the more harshly on (heir ears; and 
 though to mmister to their happiness you could drain every 
 cup, and riflo every flower of paradise, you would still find 
 them wandering in misery through its bowers, shrhin^r to 
 escape from its holy restraints, and regarding such a'deliver. 
 ance as their highest heaven. 
 
 Can the re; der ask farther proof t'.at Rome blights man's 
 eternal prospe \s ? What then, he may inquire, is there no 
 sa yation in that church ? Adored be the living God, wo 
 believe there is. By various arrangements, truly ''wonderful, 
 He makes some rays of heaven to strui/gle even through its 
 bars and gratings. That truth which S.taii's cunning has 
 mingled with this system, the better to A'cdit.c therewith, God's 
 infinite grace often makes the means of saving; and while 
 many receive only the error and perish, some receive alonc^ 
 with It enough of the truth fo neutralize its deadly pBwer"! 
 VLS, many Roman Catholics are saved, but, think you, does 
 Rome deserve the credit ?— let her own conduct answer. Is 
 It on her best or her worst men that she has usually conferred 
 her favors ?— which class has she thus proved to be most after 
 her heart ?— has she not almost as uniformly persecuted her 
 good men, as she has canonized her bad ? You tell us of 
 Fenelon— we reply, that she banished him. You speak of 
 the Port- Royalists — do you kn'^w their sad history ? You 
 quote the name of Pascal— his godly sister was hunted to 
 death, and he died a heretic, if papal bulls be true, and would 
 have certainly died a martyr had he not slept in his tomb ere 
 the authorship of his " Letters" had transpired. And you call • 
 these her children ?— her step-children you mean. Yet it is 
 with their good name she would oftimes fa'n perfume her 
 foulness; and it is with their mantle that even "Protestant" 
 pseudo-liberals would sometimes seek to hide her deformity ' 
 
ROMR BLIOHTS MAN's ETKRNAL PROSPECTS. 129 
 
 Why rio thov not rnthor qnofc tl.P men Avhom sl.o A«. r/r/^^^^^^^^^ 
 honor ? Why won't thoy 1:0 ,0 ho, „wn an,h<^.,ic Vn 
 logue of canonized saints-of those who in her jud.n.ent bo [ 
 deserved neaven-such butchers, for instance as^ Srnonde 
 Montfort,who %ures in the list as the holy St. Dominic 
 
 h .ven ! C ! could they enter that blessed place, retainin° 
 the character, and free to perpetrate the criLs whic 1" 
 cured then; canonization, they would soon wreck it oteZ; 
 vesl.gc of us bvehness, and convert it into a pandemoniunr^ 
 And now, m conclusion, when we speak of Popery as' a 
 Satanic conspiracy against the hunmn siul, we surdy^do no^ 
 mean that its priests are in the plot-they who are fkely o 
 be Its worst v.ctinis-or that they even know the work Lv 
 are doing, and the master they serve? We are convinced 
 that in this respect they " know not what they do," Z thev 
 as little dream as th, ."r flocks of the master-mind ' which pre^ 
 sides over the.r system, and that, in this sense, at least, ''thev 
 be b ind eaders of the blind." No ; the plot is too de^p even 
 io Jesuitism to contrive ; a greater than Loyola is here'^; and 
 It IS this conspiracy against the soul that proves at once "s 
 paternity and m.quity. If it only cursed our countrymen fbr 
 t.me u were bad enough ; yet this is the mere unde X of 
 his ^master piece of Satan." It is i.s fearful dis.inctLE That 
 t.ah.cs in " the souls of men ;" that, not content with blast 
 "ig them ,n time it pursues them through eternity : not satis 
 
 them'TlI "^"T-'l^ ^'^Tu°" ^^'"'' i'«h"'« '.eav'en again ; 
 them, follows them beyond that grave where wickedness usuallv 
 ceases from troub Ing, and reserves its most tremendous cule 
 foMf.at other world whither ordinary hatred refuses to Jir! 
 
 And now, fellow-Christians, we must not, cannot leave thi« 
 aw u subject, without a word to you. Is i; really so that we 
 nghtly sleep calm on our pillow, while all around us aTe 
 passing before the throne-their best preparation the unctbn 
 0^ a pries and their fairest pl.^a the merits of the VirSn ? 
 Have we hvcd foi- years amongst them, and though ofieKd 
 of heir danger, folded our arms and shut our eyes (fon tern 
 vuh that specious plea of indifference disguised fn the S 
 of chanty—" God is merciful ?" Or, if we have fn It 1 
 Protestant zeal, has it been kindled by t'h st^^nge fire f pa" t^ 
 strife full as much as by the holy flame of jeXu ^ for God^ 
 and love to souls ? We implore you to porider thf« chapS 
 
inn 
 
 run GHAND CAIJSR. 
 
 I 
 
 on your I<nnps. Otlii rs mny ilriiy ils truth, hut yoii, ni Imsf, 
 u<liiiit it; I'tidilll i-Mii'i' (II! your |»iirr, ilicii, is'lcfi without 
 r.xciis"'. Vfiii |>ii,,\v ih" iiiH>''.ii. riil( soul CDiihl not ho happy 
 in hfttivon, cnnnnt he truly hnppy anywhon- : — ihai. c miM "it 
 roam crcution inquest oi" felicity, it' would find the words 
 emblazoned on every star it approached — "There is no peace 
 to the wicked." Hut, even could it be happy in heaven, you 
 know it were impious to suppose its admiti inc(3 tlit^re. Satan 
 was hurled tlienco the moment he sinned : an.^ could 
 one sinner enter its crates, his presence would hush, in an 
 instant, itsmyriad harps, and duik(!n tiio brows of its radiant 
 thron;,'s. Then, what insensibility holds us back from jjreater 
 exertion on behalf of Homo's victims ? How many o? them 
 may, on that awful day, plead our jruilt in palliation of their 
 own, and cry, '« RefuiJto failed us ; tor these ChrhUans would 
 not care for our souls!" Then, by the love of Him who 
 SAVKD us, and commands us to make known his silvation to 
 otjiers ; by our own tremendous responsibility as itio keepers 
 of our brethren's souls; and by the inestimable worth and 
 unutterable dan;,'er of porishinir millions, lot us awake from 
 our stU|)or and (ly to their rescue. Imagine, if you can, the 
 obsequies of one lost soul ! What, in comparison, is earth's 
 most dreadful catastrophe 1 The waves of rim i's vast ocean, 
 how soon they will close over the world's mist fearful ship' 
 wreck! and the historian will scarcely mark, by one passintr 
 sentence, the spot where itocciirred. But, oh ! oni: lost soul! 
 Well mii^'ht the infi lei thus rebuke the Christian, and exclaim, 
 " If I believed the half of what you sni/ you b liove, I would 
 fly through the world with th; awful news ;— -l would force 
 my way with it into every dwidlini,' ; 1 w ,uld m;ike it r\n\r 
 from every steeple, and float on every breezt:" ; — till my toncrue 
 would cleave to my jaws, and exhaiistcd nature sink dovvn 
 and expire." 
 
 I 
 
1th, l)iit yon, f\t lonsf, 
 Ik^ii, is li.'ft wiilioiit 
 III eulilil not l)o li;i|)|iy 
 lu'i-f : — ili.u. (• .iil<l it 
 oijl<l Unci the words 
 -*• Tht^re is no peace 
 appy ill hoaveri, you 
 nmoii lUi^re. SiUan 
 siiiiiod : luju could 
 
 would hush, in an 
 I hrows of its radiant 
 IS h;ick f'roiri j^reutei" 
 How in.iny of tliein 
 n pdilialion of tliuir 
 3S0 Christians would 
 n lovo of Him who 
 jwn his s ilvution to 
 bility as iho keepers 
 stiinahle worth and 
 
 lot us awake from 
 ;ine, if you can, the 
 nparisnn, is earth's 
 f rim )'s vastocoan, 
 i m3st fciarful ship- 
 irk, by one passing 
 , oh ! CMC r,osT sout,! 
 islian, and exclaim, 
 3U bolieve, I would 
 ^ ; — [ would force 
 V )uld m;ike it rinj^ 
 56 ; — till mv tongue 
 
 nature sink down 
 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 Ti,i;s have wo traced the cause, of Ireland's wretchedness 
 hrau,..htlH..r man.f.ld complications; shown how they are 
 hke wheels w.th.n wheels ; and while estimating the share 
 which various subordinate causes have had in creatlni [t 
 racincr u to Popery as the Grand Primary Source Tlmt 
 there are other causes than Popery, we have therefore freely 
 acknowledged j but we have proved that these are either 
 produoed or aggravated by it. That there may be others 
 st.l, which the brevity of this wor!- . forbidden us to 
 notice, we as freely allow : but af- .n^k og the mos? lil^rl? 
 discoun on the score of all these which cal, with the S 
 reason be demanded, still Pnpery stands out in such fearfu 
 proimnence, that tijny seem in comparison as the drop of the 
 bucke , or the chaff on the summer thrashing-floor. 
 
 And to prevent the remotest possibility of a fallacy in our 
 argument, we have conducted it through the twofold proces, 
 ot in.luction and deduction— of analysis and synthesis. Like 
 some great nver, w. have in our Second Part ascended the 
 dark st.eam of Irehuid s woes to its source, and fbund that to 
 be her Religious state, marking as we passed the principal 
 ributanes. And then to put the case beyond cavil forever, 
 we have in our Third Part turned and sailed down the turbid 
 stream, and demonstrated not only that Popery is its main 
 channel, but that to it these tributaries chiefly owe their 
 existence, course, and power; that, to carry out the firrure 
 It IS the enormous valley which it has in the course of^arrgg 
 scoopod out, which has of nr-cessity reflected them towards'it 
 and increased their force, however distant their rise or differ, 
 eat lor a tmi ; their direction. 
 And, that Rome migiit have nothing to eo-mplain of, we 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
132 
 
 THE CURB. 
 
 have traced her through every age and land, and still found 
 her true to her own motto, Idem seinper ubique ;— that her 
 whole course through the moral heavens has been that of 
 some blood-red comet, wild and fearful. And we have 
 drawn our proofs of this, not from her old musty records, 
 those « relics of a barbarous age," as she would fain have us 
 regard them ; but from Rome herself, and especially as she 
 NOW lives and moves in the full costume of those new fashions 
 with which she has bedizened her haggard form, in hope to 
 enamour modern Christendom. 
 
 Nay, we have done more still. Our manifold facts and 
 arguments we have based on eternal laws. We have shown 
 that there are certain laws, which, being complied with, man 
 MUST BE HAPPY, and being disregarded, he must be wretched 
 m both worlds J that by nature we violate these, hence all the 
 miseries of earth and hell; that true religion, by restoring us 
 to their dominion, blesses, and that false religion, by disre. 
 garding them, curses in a thousand ways. Now, we have 
 seen that Romanism crosses all those laws, and therefore must 
 be a country s curse and poison. Our argument is thus based 
 on eternal laws ; therefore to oppose it were as preposterous 
 as to oppose those sciences which rest on the same foundation. 
 And all the anathemas which Rome can hurl against it, prove 
 not its weakness but her own, and resemble at best the impo- 
 tent attempt of the fabled Titans to storm the heavens and 
 dethrone the God of gods. 
 
 And thus every part of Ireland's great puzzle we have 
 solved. The mystery of her state we have laid bare to the 
 light of heaven ; and that so distinctly, that the blindest eye 
 can scarce help seeing every chamber of its dark labyrinth. 
 Illumined by that single word-PopERv ; and the deaffest ear 
 can scarce help hearing the doleful sound echoing from every 
 hill and valley, rock and stream,— Rome is the grand curse 
 
 OF IRELAND. 
 
 We now proceed to our last part— the Cure. But as this 
 has already been so clearly foreshadowed, it will need neither 
 elaborate nor lengthened examination. We shall sum up all 
 we shall deem it needful to say under the two heads of the 
 Medicine and the Treatment. And for the sake of greater 
 clearness and conclusiveness, we shall here also purine the 
 double process of induction and deduction. And as we have 
 seen how clearly the cure has been foreshadowed in the cause, 
 we beg the reader to notice, as he proceeds, how remarkably 
 
"the mystery solved." 133 
 
 fllZ-iSTh^^ ^^l ^'^"'"^"^ °" *^« °«"«« i« confirmed and 
 Hummed by each successive step in the cure : and how like 
 wo reflectors, they thus shed on each other such a flo^d of 
 
 ofno^'nd'ar "'" ^^-^-^'^tion the radiant clearneL 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE MEDICINE— THE POPULAR REMEDIES. 
 
 Op the numberless panacea* prescribed for Ireland, we think 
 1 necessary only to notice the following. One class of men! 
 full of her civil grievances, propose legislation: another 
 chiefly impressed with her ignorance, priach educa^"on a 
 third, looking mainly at her natural richness and actual pov! 
 ery, cry, develop her industrial resources; a fourth, in view 
 ofher moral and religious degradation, declare that the gos- 
 pel IS her only true remedy; while a fifth class, believing 
 tha each of these remedies is more or less needed sav 1p1 
 
 each!'' '^"" '"• ^' '•''" ^'''^y attend to the clS o1 
 
 Hn'iifi^''''''^^^*'^''? ^^'^^"^y P"*"^^^ th^t legislation can 
 do 1 ttle for us, and that almost the only ground which remains 
 for It to occupy is the land question, ^e need some Zre 
 sweeping measure for the transfer of land than even °he 
 Encumbered Estates' Bill ; a thorough reform of those ruin! 
 
 iZtZ'T ^"'"'J'^ ""^''^'^ "^^"y P'-^P"^^^^^ have doubt 
 less been beggared; and, above all, a new and equitable 
 
 adjustment of the relation of landlord and tenant No one 
 
 fru.hTwU'^''-^ TV^ '''''' ^" ^^J"«^"-"' J'a^ be": 
 fiaught with evil and it has, in a secondary sense, been the 
 cause of many of our agrarian crimes. It has done much t^ 
 tram our peasantry to insubordination, and beget that chronic 
 discontent which now glooms on the brows of thousands of 
 them. It has caused many of our bloodiest muders. It has 
 furnished priests and demagogues with their best text against 
 
 desolations behmd ; and thus served to break the force of the 
 demonstration that ,he is Ireland's grand curs.. It is desola! 
 
 Ih 
 
184 
 
 Till-: crjiiF. 
 
 (iii,:j tlio oiilj' fdir, bncnu.so tlx- only Pro!ostant, province in 
 (roland ; pr()vokit)<( ovini its pcaoeliil iiiliiihitantt^ lo oijtinge; 
 iiiid lliiis destroying that moral tono wliieli its <^o<ipel ministers 
 havo so carefully cultivaled • and how nuicJi m»ro serious 
 those oiil.rap;es Would now be biu fjr tiuisc jiospel ininiitors, 
 on wlinm s'lnii^'aro disposod to faihir tlu>ni idl, is pretty evi- 
 dent from the fact that they are almost exclusively the "work 
 of Ribbon men. 
 
 And what has this ruinous delay of a measure so obviously 
 just, {jaincd for the landlord himself? Whereas he might 
 now have been beloved and prosperous, at least in Ulster, 
 amidst a grateful and flourlsiiing tenantry, he has done much 
 to ruin both himself and them. And those concessions which 
 he might once have easily made, and which thett would have 
 saved all parties, he can now scarcely make without beggar- 
 ing himself. A f(>arful position ! but how is it to be avofded ? 
 We are passing through a social revolution; and the land- 
 lord who has done so much to cause it, must just take 
 his share of its trials. It can save neither party, but 
 rnust eventually rmiiboih to continue to stave off this ques- 
 tion. It is idle to decry the tenant-right agitation, or de- 
 nounce its advocates as incendiaries andcommunists. Were 
 they all that is charged on them — and some of them are far 
 from faultless— this would not affect the question an iota ; for 
 it is not with " Reverend Agitators," but great laws, you 
 have to contend. To Protection the country cannot return. 
 Therefore to Free Trade principles every interest must be 
 adjusted. To apply them to produce and not to land, to some 
 things and not to others, is the only course which cajinot be 
 long persevered in. There is no help for it then ; the land- 
 lord must, like all other mortals, bow to great laws; and, as 
 we have said, the longer the delay, the reckoning will be more 
 terrible. 
 
 But beyond a few such measures as the above, civil reme- 
 dies are perfectly useless, and many of them in our present 
 state positively injurious. There is a mmage in nations as 
 well as individuals, during which to invest them with political 
 immunities were like giving the child all the rights of a man ; 
 and a corruption, too, which perverts into a curse the best 
 civil blessings, and during the continuance of which, to con- 
 fer them on a people is just to increase their powers of mis- 
 chief. And is not this the state of multitudes in Ireland? 
 Instance the basis of all society —Truth. •» As to finding out 
 
 I 
 
 iff- 
 
ostfint, province in 
 ibitaiUs to oijtinge ; 
 its 'gospel ministers 
 uicli niflre sorious 
 c p IS pel inin lifers, 
 n ;i!l, is pri'tty ovi- 
 jlusivcly liie work 
 
 ?asure so obviously 
 ^Vliereas lie might 
 at least in Ulster, 
 he has done much 
 concessions which 
 ih then would have 
 :e without bnggar- 
 s it to be avoided ? 
 >n ; and the land- 
 :, must just take 
 leithcr party, but 
 stave off this ques- 
 t agitation, or de- 
 immunists. Were 
 le of them are far 
 estion an iota ; for 
 t great laws, you 
 try cannot return, 
 r interest must be 
 3t to land, to some 
 which cannot be 
 t then ; the land- 
 >at laws ; and, as 
 oning will be more 
 
 above, civil reme- 
 m in our present 
 age in nations as 
 hem with political 
 ; rights of a man ; 
 a curse the best 
 of which, to con- 
 ir powers of mis- 
 udes in Ireland? 
 ' As to finding out 
 
 y 
 
 THE MEDICINK~THE POPULAR REMEMES/ 135 
 
 noss!.s"1;''' '"■■' \ ^"^''■^' "''-^ "'« '"'"•« -i'^^n^- "^ Wit. 
 ■^' , it s generally m.possiblo. To save a relation from 
 
 un shment, or to punish one who has injure.! a relation «n 
 
 1 eme7;rr''' •^^^'"-•r>'""-"^^-" Anil lest this sSl be 
 deemed the language of Prof slant " hi.rntrv " he.rl-Pn tn 
 
 heir own champion. Dr. Doyle :-" The~witness" at often 
 labor to conceal, as to manifest the truth ;-one class of U em 
 anxious to defeat the law, the other only ntent on procuZ 
 conv.ct.on ; both regardless of the obligation of an K and 
 ?ef this'^irr"'"^ about contributing t^o the ends ofISc:"* 
 let this 13 the man who, m the very same letters from which 
 lus sentence is extracted, declares, that " when it pleased God 
 
 ^om;\aTfor"t?i°',"rH"P^"^^'"'i' "^ prepaS'Trdtnd 
 irom atar tor this high destiny. The Irish are. morallv 
 
 SS^rlS'^t'*^'- '^^-ther nations, b^ S^ 
 
 and perjury, ..rfectly compatible, Jnd Lt Rome's'rSidon 
 
 How ot?i '""^'"' ""V'^'^'' ^'"^^ '« ^'"P''«^^ t''e heart ? 
 How often have we ourselves seen justice paralyzed on the 
 
 trlarmafeanr^';'"^' 1""°^^"^^ "^^^'"'y-^' --' the ent 
 rial rr^ade a mere farce by perjured villainy ! Nay, how of 
 
 Sin 5 ?,'''• regardmg his reverend client, who had been 
 detected in the very act, how often is he a " common perjurer " 
 and obliged " to leave the court a degraded man !'M:^ Ta k of 
 
 \haTJ. 'TIT'' '^ '"'""'^ l^«i"gs.'--in whom are destroyed 
 those moral ob.gations on which all the value of such ri-S 
 depends And would this be your cure for Ireland's e^il' 
 You could not inflict a greater curse on a corrupt nation tlan 
 to give them a code adapted only for a virtuous'^one for 1 s 
 
 rrP„ Jtf • ° ''"''^ °"V^ P""''^'""^ *° their profligacy and in 
 
 crease their powers of mischief. Political rights, to be bl s- 
 
 ngs at a' must be in hands which won't abuse them ; and 
 
 uiuheV '-'T^ •"'^y catch the thoughtless crowd and 
 
 freedom T'"^ demagogue, slavery is better than outraged 
 
 Twtrhn u""?- 7"^' "?, "°^" ''^^-^ t«"^''>t "« this much. 
 1 wice has she tried a republic ; and by the votes of three 
 
 * Letters of J. K. L. (Dr. Doyle), p. 22. 
 t L tiers of J. K. L. (Dr. D.yle), p. 58. 
 i Report Sligo Assizes, March 13, 1837. 
 
 ill 
 
136 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 fourths of the nation, she has not only confessed that she is 
 unfit for , -edom, but that military despotism is to her a bless- 
 mg in cot .parison. Nations can only be governed by moral 
 or Tphysical power. And if men's consciences will not prevent 
 them from robbing or murdering, what else can you do but 
 Cham and fetter them ? And when, as in our wretched land, 
 Kome has so debauched the moral sense as to leave moral 
 infiuence nothing to lay hold on, it is the most mischievous 
 folly that ever was heard of to propose to her cure an increase 
 of those immunities which her corruption has already so fear- 
 fully abused. Hence despotism always does, and always must 
 prevail in Popish lands. There, there is no moral principle, 
 for moral power to operate on j and were our most ardent 
 champions of freedom made rulers there, they would soon find 
 their visions of liberty dispelled j and that in a corrupt com- 
 munity there is not a foot of standing.ground between despot, 
 ism and anarchy, between the chains of Loyola and the arms 
 of Robespierre. And is it not amazing that men have not 
 long since learned this ? Seventy-six years ago, Protestant 
 America became a free nation, and has ever since enjoyed 
 unexampled prosperity ; while, within the same period, Popish 
 prance has twice passed through the various phases of free, 
 dom, anarchy, and iron despotism. Two goodly vessels! 
 The one,— her chart, the Bible ; her ballast, virtue ; her com. 
 pass, true to the pole-star of heaven,— has been ploughing her 
 glorious way oyer Time's mighty waters, freighted with bless- 
 ings to all mankind. The other, without compass, or ballast, 
 or chart, with mutiny on board and storms around, has been 
 driven about amongst shoals and breakers, a spectacle and 
 terror to the world ! Would that the exclamation of her dv- 
 ing statesman rung in our own rulers' ears— "France cannot 
 do without a religion !" 
 
 But why argue the question thus ? Have we not proved 
 that, by the devices of Popery, the immunities which Protes. 
 tant simplicity would extend to the Papist, in hope to break 
 his chains, are transformed into means of binding them more 
 hrmly around him ?— that to " extend the suffrage," for in 
 stance, to the people is just to increase the power of the 
 priests ?— and that while there are & thousand Father Walshes 
 to threaten all with ♦« everlasting punishment" who will not 
 vote for the candidates of their choice, our champions of 
 ♦• equal rights" are only forging new chains for our country, 
 men, and playing into the hands of the worst tyrants the world 
 
THE MEDicmE— THE POPULAR REMEDIES. 137 
 
 ever saw !* Talk of dvil rights beneath a system whose head 
 thus sneers at man's chief i/r/A-riaht '_<. From 7hi. nnnS 
 fountain of indifference flows that°absurd Tnd or oneou doc 
 
 Scr-'fa^dThi^f '" '^^"' "^' d^^— HibertyTf cot 
 e t d libertv i^^"'' '^'',1' ^"°' «g^"n«tthat " ever-to-be-de- 
 
 S3' K V *''^ P'*'"'' ""'^ ^^o"'J' if it dare, give the 
 
 ITiVal f T" '^' '^T ''}^'' Alexandrian L^ibrary! 
 
 Other tvrCL."''"" ^°"' ^'^^"' ^^--gotten the confessional ? 
 
 UtJier tyrants take cognizance of your words and actions • but 
 
 yoTrIorbuth\'°" '""'"• -^"^^^^ ^^- poSme'n': 
 youraoor, t^ut it keeps a priest in your heart. The PnnP 
 
 wnh his myriad confessors dispersed over the globe is both 
 
 toTsT::' ^Tairt'r?' r' r'^^^^"^ °^ boL^n'opt 
 
 to nis gaze. Talk of political rights beneath such an ubinui 
 t c'.n''m l7^'? vvatches every government 5 and wheX 
 woT'.h^ h k'"gs n^ere puppets, and premiers the wires to 
 wo k them by j-which looks in at every door, and so com? 
 plctely murders family, and even conjugal confidence, that no 
 
 o^s t:"],;;"! : 'nV' '^^ ^^^ ^^^"'^' -• ^^onMi^::: 
 
 ^ n . ? V r °^'"t ^"'""^ '—''"'^ b«"eath whose dreadful 
 gla e the f^aher sees the brow of his innocent child ^lowini 
 ; arker each time she has been to the confessional ?Ve pm^ 
 
 calTd "^"T ^^' -'"y .'^^^°°'^'"^' ^° Parliament for «i^ at 
 n cannot do ; of applying civil remedies to a moral disorder • 
 
 The EDucATioNAL.-On this subject there prevail in Ire- 
 land, as elsewhere, very conflicting opinions,lone party op 
 posing all education from which religion is severed and aX 
 5;;r"^ f, with which it is unLd_tJie Na^l l LaS 
 teSc of tCf °^ '^'IT\ '''^ ^"^^'''^y ^° ^' the charac- 
 Innrov? K . ™''- ^" ^'"^ P"''^'^^ ^^ ^^^e something to 
 approre, bu more to condemn. We object to the violent 
 
 h s atTe:Jt i ' ^rT ^^'•S^"'"^ '^^' 'h« Board, if an evH 
 has at least displaced a greater evil, the "hedge-school ;"-! 
 that If a " curse," u is chiefly of their own procuringl-for 
 
 • Report of Select Committee on Bribery and T„,in,idatioD. 
 T hncychcal Letter of Gregory XVI., 1832. 
 
 Ill 
 
 
 i> 
 
188 
 
 THE CURB. 
 
 had thetr system wrougl.t well, it hnd never oxistcd : there is 
 
 a certain cluss who seem to rcj^ard it as the Gnostics viewed 
 
 matter, and denounce il as fiercely as though it, not Popery, 
 
 were the grand apostncy, and Marlborough Stree% not Rome. 
 
 were the seat of the Beast ! Well, the impression somehow 
 
 prevails, that this enmity does not wliolly sprinrr from heavenly 
 
 motives, but is as much prompted by the spirit of Diotrephes 
 
 as that of Jesus. We ourselves cannot forget how pertina- 
 
 ciousiy these men continue to assert, in the face of all fact, 
 
 that in Protestant schools connected with the Board the use of 
 
 the Bible is more restricted than in those of their own Church 
 
 liducation Society. 
 
 To the national system we know there is much to object • 
 but while men like Mr. Trench patronize its schools, we can- 
 not regard it as the root of all evil ; and when men like Dr. 
 M Neilc eulogize its efficiency, we cannot but regard it as the 
 source of some good. Thousands of Roman Catholics, who 
 but tor It would now be sunk in hopeless darkness, are rejoi- 
 cing ma substantial education. Anfi why should these breth- 
 ren seek to destroy a system which, mough not , '1 they could 
 wish confers such important benefits? If cui countrymen 
 won t have all the knowledge we desire, shall we therefore 
 give them none ? If they won't use the Bible at fim siaht 
 shall we prevent them from ever being able to use it ? If they 
 • won t instantly emerge from Roman bondage, shall we there- 
 tore put it out of their power ever to emerge ? On the plea 
 of not violating our consciences, shall we thus act a part 
 Which requires the immolation of theirs, and, in the name of 
 1 rotestantism, seek their conversion by such Popish compul- 
 sion I And since we cannot conscienliously aid the Board in 
 enlightening a country whose darkness is a di.sgrace to Chris- 
 tendom, must we not only hinder those who can, but impu.m 
 their motives and denounce their conduct ? 
 
 Besides, what is meant by this cry of" godless knowledjre?" 
 1 he sun, of all knowledge is God and his works— is it this 
 they call godless ?— and under the plea of j>ietu, are thev 
 gu.l.y of profanity? "^// his works praise" and reflect 
 Him ; and if we do not see Him in every star and stream, 
 the fault IS not in the book but the student. On all are 
 marked the footprints of the Creator; and if learned men 
 have been infidels, it is not because, but in spite of their pur- 
 suns. We protest, then, against this narrowminded attempt 
 to set the God of grace against the God of nature. It has 
 
;ver pxislcd ; there is 
 
 the Gnostic*? viewed 
 
 lough /■/, not Popery, 
 
 ^h StreeS not Rome, 
 
 impression sorriehovv 
 
 spring from heavenly 
 
 ' spirit of Diotrephes 
 
 forget how portina- 
 
 the face of all fact, 
 
 the Board the use of 
 
 of their own Church 
 
 is much to object ; 
 '■ its schools, we can- 
 when men like Dr. 
 : but regard it as the 
 man Catholics, who 
 darkness, are rejoi- 
 / should these breth- 
 ?h notf '1 they could 
 If GUI countrymen 
 shall we therefore 
 Bible at frti fight, 
 to use it? If they 
 >ge, shall we there- 
 ■ge? On the plea 
 ve thus act a part 
 ind, in the name of 
 icli Popish compul- 
 ly aid the Board in 
 a diogracetoChris- 
 lo can, but impugn 
 
 dless knowledge?" 
 s works— is it this 
 of pieti/, are they 
 raise" and reflect 
 ' star and stream, 
 lent. On all are 
 d if learned men 
 spite of their pur- 
 )wminded attempt 
 f nature. It has 
 
 THS MEmciNE—THE POPULAR REMKDIES. 189 
 
 been the fruitful source of the infidelity which is complained 
 d: simnmng secular learning as an object of snspiciorwe 
 have left her m the hands of wicked min, and if Zy Ze 
 
 fault has been ours for leaving her with them. Then we say 
 
 ~ j""""* lt'"l '7r r"'""" '^'•°^'«dge; better this than 
 none All kmds of light are sisters, prismatic rays from the 
 great Sun of truth a„d, though ditTering in their hues^ yet 
 cons uuent parts o the same celestial elt-menr. Rome Jes 
 all kinds of knowledge ; and this alone mi-Hit teach those 
 Pr./j>./«„^. that all kinds are useful. She knows well that 
 secular and religious light are as closely allied as civil and 
 religious iberty and that all these conspire to elevate and 
 J/J.* y and It IS deplorable that what Rome sees so clearly, 
 Protestant imbecility cannot see, or Protestant bigotry wil 
 not. ^ They say they dread infidelity ! Should thev not, 
 thereiore, dread Popery more than the Board— for what is 
 infidelity but ''an excrescence on the back of the Beast?" 
 What produced the entire school of Voltaire but this errand 
 insult to the human undecstandiiig '^ And why dread" Infi- 
 dehty more than Popery ? Is not the former often the in. 
 quirer s first resti.g-place on his journey from Rome to 
 Jerusalem ? Infidels think-hut Papists can only beZve 
 wiich state, suppose you, is the more hopeful one? And 
 whether IS Infidel France or Popish Spain this instant more 
 accessible to the gospel missionary ? But where is the mon- 
 sler brood of infidels which it was predicted this Board should 
 bring forth? Are not all wise men now beginning to admit 
 Uiut It IS- going to be a grand engine for the overthrow of Irish 
 t opery .'—and the very best proof is Rome's anxiety to get 
 I'icl of It. _ it has penetrated into her inmost camp, where the 
 gospel missionary could not have followed. It has dived into 
 her deepest dungeons ; and, as it brings out her victims to 
 the hght, should not we stand at the door with the gospel to 
 receive them ? It is teaching them to read-let us be readv, 
 When it has done so, to give them a Bible. It is sprin-rina 
 he mine— let us stand prepared, when all is ready, to lafthe 
 train and put t. the match. It is thus being overruled 'as a 
 pioneer of the gospel, by Him who makes even the most im- 
 perfect plans of sinful men to subserve his glorious designs • 
 and let Hot us, the ministers of that gospel, wrangle and split 
 hairs, refusing to avail ourselves of the good it may do, be. 
 cause not done in the mode we would approve : so shall we 
 
 \l 
 
 \i 
 
 )| 
 
'f( 
 
 140 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 Inn.?.!"";"/ •''' '"^^'^'^y ^" ^'•«^^' '^"d '"ost effectually pro- 
 inolo llio Clinstmnity we desire. ''^ ^ 
 
 o.,ml'l,n"l!!'./"°'1 "'^ "^^ ''PP^'"^ ^° ^^^ sentiments of the 
 u Cfl' ^' "''^,° T'"''' P'"^"'^'^ "'^••^ «^«»'"'- knowledge 
 
 tin, .« U, -r''' ^' '' V""""^'" ""^ "'"'"^"^ «'^'" of these 
 tin «, that f ion, so many of our seminaries where all other 
 
 J» t "",^ "'"'.'" «'« «"-«le of what is termed - usefu/ 
 
 w L w ^^'"f ""'^y "'h'ol> is man's best friend for both 
 
 w id ;.rT? Tfy FT'' "Sainst this. And is it thus yon 
 
 • 1 V . . "^ '"''•/^'^ complicated maladies o,^ Ireland ? 
 
 1 Zn r 1 V"'? ' "^"'' '^"^ ^'''"' *^«^^ '^^y do"« to purify 
 a < X i r . . r ^ '""" "'T' '-"^hievement has been to throw 
 ? . tb III ^ 7""7-r */^^^«'^'"*' if you will-over the cor. 
 i tZ^r^r ^^' ^'J"^t have 
 
 1 ,r '° ,"''^'' ^''^ put-faction itself? Look, ye 
 
 ' I.M o mere education, to Greece and Rome, and was^t 
 
 irv n/l.':,'rn"'"^.'';'^ "^''^'"^^ '^' ^'^'''^''' Poi"t that 
 i< ir VII lit had fallen the lowest ? Corruption was sannino- 
 
 hIIIIZ' t'Jr^"'/'" Augustan a^e; ancT^iS!^"^ 
 woi« Hcl ny their country to Pliilip. Or look, if vou will lo 
 
 Kland, and lacks nothing but virtue to steady and direct it 
 ^<, wanting this ballast, it is the abundan/e of h r si ^ 
 wheh iHover threatening to swamp her. Was it not her 
 
 ;^;x-"R:-:;;;!;fT''^ ^v'^ ?- -voiutionVLrw!;:; 
 
 m , . , ? of ^"'■' "•' but the monster progeny of this 
 unnntnra wedlock of learning and wickedness'^? ^ ^ 
 
 yoUHtintr?n!^"i; 1? "'''■«^^'" ""'• country, but we ask 
 KcT, i«TL , T . ! ^'' viituous-to give her that knowledge 
 w ,H power, but to give her also a conscience to guide it 
 w hal^to p„dow her with a " giant's strength" if yfu can 
 
 ?,!« : 1 7 "'"""^ education you can do this ? You nro 
 
 K vet^^^^^^ I-land-what, then, is the task before yoT? 
 
 io g ve honesty to thieves, and truth to liars, and diligence 
 
 to JdorH, and energy to ail-to banish per ury from our 
 
 XcLTLTT'V^' ^'''' ""I ^'^^ontent, lay the demon 
 01 robollion, and set up the reign of peace-and thus to empty 
 
id most effectually pro- 
 
 THK MEmcmE-THB POPITLAR IIBMEDIES. 141 
 
 your treatment to the head. Henco i ' i^nnt T '^ """'^^'^^ 
 "rghteousness which will exalt our n lion '' ' J' T'T ^"' 
 spring, but the " fountain of li n" w"2 '- ^iiat 'in' T'""" 
 those corruptions which cause its docay ' "" '"'"°'" 
 
 ledge or pervemTt IhL "^ ' ■""""■ "'•'"" »" !<"<>»■- 
 ta been tTv teachh,. .Lr'" T'f P'^P"""' ^ »"'' "hi"!- 
 
 favTdt/r'e medT V"^"f "■?' ^'"^'"'"^ '« ''«^* '^"''^'"••ng the 
 / ', remedy ihe rush of our emoiricH hn« nF l„.„ i 
 
 J' tradesmen 3 sons are gentlemen, and your farmers' 
 
 ^ ii 
 
143 
 
 THB CURB. 
 
 I I 
 
 dniiphtors Mies ;— thrre must be on end lo this : your voune 
 
 Ill z. , and lu.r Hside from llu ir |.ound« lo follow ihe plout-h • 
 you, voung lad.es must lay down tl.eir on. broidery , ml .. e 
 
 mode of 1 -^ T ^" ''"'■'' y°" '^"*'' altiryour ntLe 
 
 mode oJ l./t— you must go down to the bowels of the euith 
 and b.,ng up „s mine,als-.p,.ad yourselves over your bc^ '/ ' 
 and fo m pent companies- go out upon the seas, and catch 
 tl e cod and her.ings-huild ships, and ci.cunn;v.' '.te h 
 giobe _m a word.turn I.-elnnd into a workshop rwebve 
 
 auwned . Here is their pioposal ; and to show that thev are 
 no visionanes, they would have schools in every pa Lh ^b? 
 agriculture, ndustry, and trades of all kZdl Kl of 
 
 rn'g'eri: "'^^"^^^ ^""'^' ^"^ superintended b^ com^inf 
 
 An exquisite dream this !— we have dreamed it ourselves 
 enorm'ou cost "'"";'"^ '' '' ''' ^ '''^^' J^ou'l^s by 
 mucn could in this way, be done for Ireland : and we there 
 fore rejoice in every such movement. We are thank. .uTto 
 hZlTtl'^T'^ ^''"''^"^ "Icerofour diseaseLoury,e^^^^^ 
 
 for w,„™r,^ X^vt]zsi;;i^ir k 
 
 have g,,e„ her the head and ,he hands, il ,>•;,■„" but von 
 have not g,ve„ her Ihe hearl and conscience. Her^'ople wan^ 
 honesty, energy, steadiness, perseverence Tf, l,,fi 
 
 improvements you may—u is too likely your clerks will 
 decetve,your customers rob you, your semm^ take ad vln- 
 
and ; and we there- 
 
 I ; and make what 
 
 THE MEDICINE— THB POPULAR REMEDIES. 143 
 
 tage of you whenever ihry can : nrid after years of the most 
 nnxioas toil, you will („,, probably fi„,| that your host plans 
 have hoen rusiruted, and your money put inio a - ba./with 
 holes and bo con,peIl..d to retire iu disyust fron, the scene ! 
 You thnik this too -loomy a prediction ? Alas ! it is not pro- 
 phecy at all-,t is well-known hisfory. What else has been 
 he (ate of most of the philanthropic schemes of which Ire- 
 land has nlrea^ly been the scene ? Who does not kno^v that 
 in our present state, the best men come here only to peril their 
 fortunes, and their most generous efforts are often turned into 
 evils? Those who give are forgotten— those who lend are 
 not always repaid— thoso who trust are imposed on— and 
 those who confide their capital to Irish han. Aen find it 
 squatidered in rash speculation or fraudulent jobs. And 
 why ?— because Popery and prosperity are elements as in- 
 compatible as fire and water. For apart altogether from the 
 ^^r«/ intermeddling of the priest, whose favor you cannot expect 
 but at the price of truckling subserviency, and whose endless 
 annoyances you cannot prevent, so long as the people you 
 operate on are his slaves, and know of no other criminality 
 but tha of displeasing him; apart, we say, from this altogether, 
 you will find yourselves in the midet of a deluge of depravity, 
 contending against the most hopeless odds ; and even when 
 nrl II /°"^^''^^?"'''°'"^''^"'^'"gg''"^"d, it will most 
 sand " °"^ ^° "" '^"^'"^ ^°^' °' "" trembling quick- 
 VVe say, then, to our industrial economist, ymr scheme, 
 00, IS radically defective. You may teach the people Indus- 
 try, will they practise it ? You may invoke its spidt, will it 
 come at your call ? You may bring railways to ivery town 
 and canals through every parish, and reclaim our bogs, and 
 deepen our rivers, and drain our whole country to its moun. 
 tain tops, will this implant those great moral principles on 
 Which the value and permanence of all such improvements 
 depend ? You have given the machinery, it is true, but 
 "".Z^'^^^^^'ovingpovverl And you have your choice 
 either to continue working it yourselves, or see it stop and go 
 to ruin as soon as you withdraw. And at the very utmost 
 you can only by such means make Ireland like one of your 
 arge Asylums, with its grounds beautifully laid out, and its 
 inmates working here and there ; hut all superintended by 
 o^her hands, and supported by general charily. No ; Ireland 
 wants somethmff that mArn inHncf" / ,u- --. 
 
144 
 
 THE CUR8. 
 
 Without which It cannot exist. We are thankful for your 
 wcll-nieant exertions but they can only palliute, they cannot 
 cure. And oh ! how often have we 'looked with sorrowful 
 inforcst on those schemes of mere worldly benevolence which 
 are now going forwarH here and tliore through our country, 
 and mourned to think that, for want of that moral element 
 Which alone can give them permanence, they must sooner or 
 ater come to naught f And wo have been reminded the 
 while of the child's frail embankments on the sandy shore. 
 Which are doomed to yanish before the flowing tide f 
 
 The ScRiPTURAL—It is truly mournful to be obli.red to 
 prove that God's remedy for Ireland is the best:- -in this 
 mneteenlh century, the brightest era of the gospel's triumphs— 
 and in this United Kingdom, the richest storehouse of its 
 trophies— to have to go over the argument anew, as if Paul 
 were^ only setting out on his first journey. Nor can we 
 imagine a more humiliating fact, than that Britain owns not 
 a tew statesmen, nn^^ philanthropists, too, who, while they call 
 themselves Christians, seem to think a people's reli.rion has 
 as little to do with their prosperity as the color of their hair • 
 nay, who speak of the gospel as though it were some supe-' 
 nor kind of superstition, fitted for weak but not for manly 
 minds, or at best some mystic thing designed for the dying 
 
 nnfiM^ r.?' -''^J'^'"g' '^n^l suited to the cloister, but 
 unfitted for the world ; and who even smile at the " bisot" 
 who wou d assert that God knows best what " exalts a nation » 
 and retail with baptized lips those sneers at the " foolishness 
 of preaching, which used to be confined to heathen cynics' 
 
 At a late meeting of poor-law guardians in Connaught, a 
 Roman Catholic member of the board boldly declared his 
 belief— of course, amid cries of "order" from the priests 
 and their minions— that the Bible was the secret of Uls- 
 ters prosperity, and that nothing else wonld elevate the 
 other provinces. What an affecting circumstance ! Was the 
 poor man led to make this remark by some such instinct as 
 guide other creatures to select the aliment which suits them 
 best ; or nierely by the feeling which prompts the blind man 
 w shfully to turn his dark eyeballs to the sun when he hears 
 all nature around him rejoicing in his morning beams ? 
 
 We have a ready demonstrated that to nothing else than 
 the Bible can Ulster owe its vast superiority. The subjoined 
 tables show that nearly five sixths of all Ireland's Bible and 
 
ful to be obliged to 
 the best: -in this 
 gospel's triumphs — 
 t storehouse of its 
 nt anew, as if Paul 
 ney. Nor can we 
 at Britain owns not 
 who, while they call 
 3ople's religion has 
 color of their hair; 
 it Were some supe- 
 but not for manly 
 igned for the dying 
 ) the cloister, but 
 lile at the " bigot" 
 t " exalts a nation," 
 at the " foolishness 
 to heathen cynics ! 
 IS in Connaught, a 
 joldly declared his 
 ' from the priests 
 the secret of Uls- 
 wonld elevate the 
 nstance! Was the 
 ne such instinct as 
 : which suits them 
 Tipts the blind man 
 sun when he hears 
 ning beams ? 
 nothing else than 
 y. The subjoined 
 eland's Bible and 
 
 Sunday-school instruction are confined in ihnt .;« i 
 
 ne«, or,h. n,e„';;,i";i;o,S rSly"".' Sl',".;"'"'*^''- 
 IS nearer the truth ravf. m. ■„;.,. .^ ? ""' '""- ^<"'<^rae 
 
 never raved agat'^t'^TI ^S^ftl^^""'' (SJ^^^ ^«,? 
 rol is with the imlTniul " t e H blp'^^ 4 '"■ »"" '''^"''■■ 
 
 i■.sowinT^ot,?ZRiM/K^'' ^ *^"^^"'''^ godlessness 
 
 not to th^e presence but o'th. u '^" ""T °^ ''' ""^ '^'"«''°^« 
 liie presence but to the absence of true Protestantism. 
 
 • ScvDAT-vScHoor, Society for Ireland, 1 851 . 
 
 Frovlnces. 
 Urster, . . 
 Lojnster, - 
 Munster, - 
 CoDnaught, 
 
 Number 
 ofachooli, 
 
 ■ 1931 - 
 
 ■ 457 - 
 
 ■ 400 - 
 SIS . 
 
 Number 
 of scholari, 
 
 - 164fi35 
 
 - 323 14 
 
 - 17160 
 
 - 1240'? . 
 
 Ulster, - - 
 Leinster, - 
 Munster, • 
 Connaught, 
 
 Hibernian Bible Society, 1851. 
 Bibles, Testamenis.and Portions. 
 S"'"*- Granu. 
 
 - 1424 - - . 15408 . . 
 
 - 224 . - . 39,1 . . 
 ">"--- 930 - . 
 
 - 1«6 - . . 3667 - . 
 
 NamberorgmiQltoM 
 teacheri. 
 
 - - 14151 
 
 - - 3006 
 
 - - 1774 
 839 
 
 t Encyclical Lstter of Leo XII.» 1824. 
 
 TotaL 
 16838 
 3135 
 1090 
 3853 
 
m : ■ 
 
 ; ( 
 
 146 
 
 THE CURB. 
 
 sr i 
 
 And it efTectually confirms our position, that where Popery is 
 most intense there is the deepest degradation, and where Pro- 
 testantism is most pure there is the hijihest elevation ; and, 
 therefore, that when Papists are bad, it is because of their 
 system, and when Protefctants are bad, it is in spite of theirs. 
 We will now add, that the godless Protestantism which is 
 complaim-d of is owing much to the corrupting atmosphere of 
 Popery, and the " virtuous Popery" which is gloried in, to 
 the antiseptic power of Protestantism, for is it not notorious that 
 our worst Protestants are generally found in the most Popish 
 districts, and our best Roman Catholics in tho most Protes- 
 tant? What different things are the Roman Catholics, ay, 
 , and the Protestants, too, of Ulster and of Connaught respec- 
 tively ! For in the one province grows a moral upas tree, and 
 even Protestants suffer by its deadly exhalations ; in the other 
 grows the tree of life, and even Roman Catholics, who will 
 not taste its fruit, are* the better for dwelling beneath its shade. 
 Here is the solution, and there can be no other. You have in 
 our country two atmospheres, a pestilent and a pure one, 
 generated by the Breviary and the Bible respectively, and 
 commingled in different proportions in our various provinces. 
 The pestilent predominates as you go south and west, and the 
 4)vre as you come north ; and the moral health of all denon;!- 
 rations is affected in exact proportion to the qaantity they 
 breathe of each. 
 
 Yet ignorant depravity asks to this hour. What has the 
 Bible to do with Ireland's elevation ? How can any man 
 read it, and doubt that the only thing necessary to make the 
 whole earth a paradise is just to follow its instructions ? How 
 could men, for example obey the golden rule, and «' do to 
 others as they would have others do to thcmj" or the two 
 great commandments, and "love God supremely, and their 
 neighbours as themselves," without bringing ba^k the inno- 
 cence of Eden ? Will any man hazard his character for 
 ■anity by venturing to deny this? Wiiy, our most florid 
 conceptions of the chanj^e which would follow the universal 
 reign of such principles, are meagreness itself. Is it not 
 perfeiQrty obvioiis, that beneath their swny every demon of 
 vice and crime. rtyst fly back to the pit whence hecamo; 
 and that iki the atmo.<;phere they would create, man would 
 attain his loftiest moral stature, his stunted mind its largest 
 growth, his shrivelled heart its divinest expansion, and there. 
 fore hia Ci.rihly habitation its highest pitch of improvement ? 
 
h 
 
 ran «raicnTB— «ni rom&n nttnuna, 147 
 
 Yet the Bible has nothing to do with a nation's greatness 'f 
 Hud ,t ever once fuikd to elevate, or had mere woSv exnp 
 dieiits ever succeeded without it, then mi "ht , IJ. I ^ 
 
 t-vifi \ei aone to stay the crimes or tears of mankind ? \i7i 
 human wickedness has laughed to scorn. an7umanwor'a's 
 only been mocked by such paltry expedients. VVh L ml 
 
 Prist's" rr^'^'^-^r' ^heir%«e«i;,re.. whose only ZTd 
 prov sions, i[ any such they contained, were borrowed or nil 
 fered from the li.ble, that book has in reality been mainta'^n 
 ing the chief struggle with the world's corruptions and dif' 
 
 no morrclnfrnl r ' ^""^ "''r''^"-' ''^'''^ ""''^ ^t'^f^'^s could 
 
 zzijzv:::^^^^^^^ ^^"--^^ ^^-^^ 
 
 err^en TJ'IZ T"'' 7^f^ '? ^"'^'^- ^ ^^^^ i^l'^^-'ate fish- 
 seeTnin.dv vW d\h 7 '''I ^'''"^' °^ •^°''^^" °" ^" ^'•^""d so 
 ''Tnslnftv ' nl ' i!"? ^"''' "''' ''''^•^''^'' '""^t to pity their 
 bv thei Lrv nf""' ^''" ':,P'-f "'"P"^"." Yet somehow, 
 Dytieir story ot "one Jesus," the most colossal fabrics of 
 
 t e l^d'a'ii'd thlT",T '"°"^T' ''' '^--^ of mona cl^ 
 iremoied, and the world was revolutionized ' 
 
 A solitary monk once disentombed a Bible from ti.P «Pnnl 
 
 Or look V J '"'T ^"'^''"^ '^'" "'^ ^'•°"' ^ "«^ creation I 
 
 U look ye rnor.d reformers, to that uproarious villaL^e re- 
 ma k.ble for nothm. but its vice and misery ! You lave 
 exhausted your nostrums on it, and how .nuch ha^e you dune ? 
 
 w "m Sme c Tl"' ""' T'" ''^'^ ^^'' "''^' -'l^ttered'hhie nt 
 V om some call an enthusiast, and others a fanatic,-a man 
 
 bu 4h Tr no language but his own, nor sehen.e of re br.n 
 buHhat of salvation, in whom the love of Christ and sol Is 
 
 Obseive how /.«.goes to work, for it is worth yoSr notice 
 Hs sole weapon,^ a Bible; his .chief ngency, schools and 
 
 CrT-'TeH "'"';'•" ''r"''' f '^'^••" ' '- -Ji'torrr e V 1. 
 •S.Jh'^ T 'T. °"'y o'-de'-s,"the love of Christ con- 
 •trameth me;" and !„s manner, possibly such as to shock Uie 
 
148 
 
 THH CVRK. 
 
 t Wr f,' °""?""^«J d.cornm. Yet that man in lime 
 t nsforms iKU v.llngo [_,he tuvom is exchan.a.d for the 
 
 s ouiJ you pass through its quiet streets, u. li,o"sum.n(3r .ve- 
 s ?P. I'.'t'""', ••^"' :'.?. '''" n«';^l'l>onn.^ l.ills, yo.i could 
 'r,'l'; ''•'''''''';''?■' ^ '"^^ e"«l'^»"tc.r has been h're ? Do 
 nZ ''„' .". ^^'^""'^ '" '^^'''«v^. ''"'^ t'-e Hihle did all this, and ^ive 
 timt hi. r^ ''^•'" ^''^' "y""*^'^ in.slitutions ? Then behold 
 some. l,u""'""TT' P'°^''"'"^' 'heir trackless wav to 
 
 another of '"""'n'' "'''"'^' ^"'^^ ^^^ '^-^^ ^'^ «'"'« «n«'»"d 
 a other of hose Wihl savages, whom nothing else could tame, 
 undergoes the most complete transn)rmation ! But wi.y need 
 wo proce^ed? What has any land ever been but arte d of 
 blood und crnr^e till the Bible has dispelled the sulphurous 
 
 ' here I mi f KM ,«^ ""',^^>''^'. f«« i-nprovements ? And hence, 
 uhore but in Bible Inn.ls will you lind arts nourishinrr in full 
 
 ds\e;sTi";".':T-^'"^t,'^' -''^ r^^' ^"y^^'-- ^^--"'^-e 
 
 B a?n hi n. y ' .'^''««'"^^«? Or what else has made 
 Britu.n the queen of nations, and the theatre of wonders, with 
 her thousand trees of life and liberty wavin^ in the brS 
 and spreading to the sun ? Yes, compared wi,|. the B He as 
 
 c. tes, and punish the atrocities it wholly prevents. And 
 what proves us «,a;.r.//o«. power is, that ei^on whe e it doe 
 
 TnJli ■ }"" '^''"'^ ,""'"'' '' "t J^-^^t '•'^'■■I'-'ls its putrefac- 
 tion ; where it does not clothe the moral waste with vJr ire it 
 
 somcl that each sanctuary it rears has ever proved I ke 
 
 ol,g^..,ouse on t e ocean's verge, which no on y gi s 
 
 Ighttoitsownatten.lints, but sends its strugc.li„,r rays far 
 
 out over the gloomy wave ! ^'^ '^ ^ ^'^ 
 
 Such is the FACT ; and here we mi.rht rest and Ioivp nnr 
 gns,an philosophers to sneer on in thdr pitiable lindne's:' 
 Ood s glorious plan " for the heali,,. of the nations ''Bu 
 we now shall meet them on their own ground and demon 
 strate the matchless wis.lom and powei- of e Isnel as a^i 
 
 remedies for Ireland, or any other land, must hide their di' 
 
 aMMHH 
 
''et that mnn in time 
 i exchanjjrcd for tlie 
 eveniii<r hymn ; and 
 an iii(.( suinmer t ve- 
 'inrr hills, yoii could 
 has l)eeM here ? Do 
 did all this, and ^ive 
 ons ? Then behold 
 r trackless way to 
 low in time one and 
 inir else could tame, 
 »n ! Ptni why need 
 heen but a tield of 
 ed the sulphurous 
 ised its people from 
 bound them, clear- 
 weeds, and sowed 
 Mits? And hence, 
 flourishing in fuil- 
 ys, or benevolence 
 hat else has made 
 e of wonders, with 
 vinnr id the breeze 
 with the Uihle as 
 scliemos of states- 
 nies whicli it erud- 
 r prevents. And 
 ven where it docs 
 lis ; where it does 
 tards its pntrefac- 
 5to with verdure, it 
 its dreariness ; — 
 ever proved like 
 cli not only gives 
 'uggling rays far 
 
 'St and leave our 
 iable blindness at 
 e nations." But 
 Hid, and demon- 
 the gospel as an 
 )ofore it all other 
 ust hide their di- 
 
 THR MEUICIXE—THB GHAWD BPECIFIC. 
 
 149 
 
 ";:'"!;:' „!;71'^ ,•:;, '-'^''^'^ -nsignificnnce, and flide ns the 
 
 r:':;;:rf::"^:^T^^^'''^'-^=''^=^'-'''''''''''''-H^ 
 
 tiy's nl 'l I, : ' "' '" '" ""'^'•'^^ '^"^ '^""^'' '■^'■" '-'• our eoun! 
 
 CHAPTER ir. 
 
 THE MEDICINE— rilK (jRANtt SPECIFIC. 
 
 DouuTiESs one cause of the unbelief above referred m :« 
 that men do not see the rea.snni of fl,,. r,.. '^'-'•-neU to is, 
 
 so m, gmnccnt. VVe can oidy introduce you to the norel. of 
 
 Ra „^„,i r 1 ("'"»u(. youi Hisuoveries for voursplf 
 
 Be good enough, then, to refer to our first nrincit.'es fn n 
 61 ; and as we have found how Popery et tS a i a d f 
 
 noighbor i i;^: s, n o • r. d""1 '''"' '"? '"^ ^"'^ ""'' °"'- 
 virt^iH Wn 1 , I ■ n ""''^''li^'i'', i'nd therefore of ull 
 
 1. Love alone can secure t;*>/ue-and it dots so most per- 
 
IdO 
 
 THi cvn. 
 
 every rfM/» to Irmsplf nnri .^ "'^'^7'"'e, if God would have 
 
 only to inspire CohSjrfr/'''^' ''''"': ^l'"''^^"'' ^' ^'^ 
 done. ' ''"'"'''^ ''"^ o"'- neighbor,-«„d j/ is 
 
 purest enjoyme,,,? Is t t "« •'"'''' '" our source of 
 
 spoils, or thiblis 'of lovinl S beTT'^r' ^"'"'^''^ "^''^«' 
 o;- silver and gold." o^ rXrttZVZm^J " '"T '"" 
 throbbinff to the voice pvph ^r n 7 nit<ction~our hearts 
 sweeter '^^ones of one L fnnH T/'% ^'""'^ ^' "'« '"'»'• 
 freelv does the hearf r. .• "."r'^ '^"'^'^"' '« ^"^'^^'^ So 
 
 deli^h-fuI^fl-ecHo «,rt'';^^^ P°t-t speil of this 
 
 s«?ies filt itschnrms, but he de ne^; ^''' ^""^'' «"^ «^'>" 
 nl'Ie wholly to dispe tl m „n7 ^''r^^'^y «^ems scarce 
 infant's cradle, an!J I 'p^o^e? I eiTL .::' '"''"' 7^' '''''' 
 
 nec'..sarvem.n,"rKr„r^r'''' Pl'rfeetly. Mark, first, the 
 
 nec..sarv effi.c. of love to Grd Wn'' ^^^ 
 jnlMVnseif infinitely ^.e^g^d^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 Ills creatures. It is therefm. ,J . ? ^'«"-''>"ted to all 
 
 tliey know and exprriencTh ' f °^''r"'' '^"' "^« '"ore 
 ^ove Hin.. and the^more "u fl '"'' '''" "^"'*^ "'^-^ "^"«t 
 -.«.., of course. Tb erve ne ';i;':^'' f "iM"^^^'''^- '«- 
 oti.er; it would na.uralirexE^Wir •'' °/ '""" '° ^"^'^ 
 «»//«a/ kindness-thnse ..^ l!,'^'" " "'ousand acts of 
 
 nowedactsofafrcciormrrr'ff',^^"''^ ^^" '^"'> ^^^ 
 all which could do ^'othenor. '''m '"' " "™"'^'' ^''h 
 to imagine myriads of cremu?e'r°^ ''"^^ o'^'j 
 
 and increasing love, and .'lloy" tniT^.'''''''^'''''''' 
 amelioration, which as thpir S ? "'"^^ schemes of 
 would enabl, so ttir endle 'iv ''^-^ "["^''"^ knowledge 
 tliem to devise ; a 7vou &f:°"'"^^"^« .-^^'^ pro^^ 
 
 baffle, .„ oo„eep,io„.°"S'„:!;,r^r„,l"'',.4^-Er;jS 
 
 •"""'""•■ irinii'ififflBm 
 
<^ fi'om a cold sense of 
 
 likt'ly ro !)-■ ncirlecfed, 
 
 l'>ni,' as love stroniilv 
 
 brotlifT, or disobey a 
 
 re, if God would have 
 
 ibor obsrrvt'fl, he has 
 
 neighbor,— oMd u is 
 
 — and it does so most 
 Olid is our source of 
 ion of earth's richest 
 k^od'—our " house full 
 iffJ'Ction — our hearts 
 ng fame, or the far 
 'hful to flatter? So 
 e potent spell of this 
 >oets sung, and even 
 ravily seems scarce 
 ive smiled over their 
 ?r's grave, long after 
 !r any other spot on 
 'lis universe happy, 
 
 done. 
 
 ■ease of virtue and 
 y. Mark, first, the 
 essed Heing centres 
 s distributed to all 
 ious, that the more 
 :l)e more thry must 
 e and happiness in- 
 ■cr of love to each 
 
 a thousand acts of 
 >uld call forth re- 
 ome a conflict with 
 ^ow, you have only 
 its of such constant 
 
 those schemes of 
 ■owing knowledg*> 
 ove would prothpt 
 
 agoing a train of 
 
 and combinntionr, 
 vancement which 
 
 glorious platform 
 
 THE MEDICINE— THE ORAND SPECIFIC. 151 
 
 on which God has reared his universe. And such was man'« 
 condmon before the fall. His soul tho sea^f an dlZe 
 
 tdnVd rri";' ^"f ^'^ ^'""^ «"d happine:s.1nd on.' 
 mneame germ of angehc mprovement. 
 
 II. Love to Gud and each other is recuUarh necessarv to 
 
 IT V">? ^ ^PP'"^'^-^ °^ ">^ H.MA V race. We h we W ' 
 -and to be happy, must love some object. We ' ave mind, 
 -and that object must be capable of enrra^in. them Wp 
 are y.,,, ,„ , immorial-Ml object n.Cst^lh'r. ore be m! 
 mortal and spiritual. Our minds an.l heart are formed fo 
 mdkss jro«,/A_,hat o!,ject must be capable of s ti fyin. 
 thase endlessly mcreasing demands upon it. Whih' it musf 
 
 ci iet wTf' ^"r'"."'-'^' - -'' - -it all ou"c"S 
 cities. We are weak— it must b able to imoart ur n, >u\ 
 
 and changing-it must never change ; in sZrt it mufbi 
 
 an object independent of all vicissimde;, and ad p ed to al! 
 
 times, places, and circum-uices. Finally, as we atm mv 
 
 dwell.ug together, and required to love each othe.- hm^s I' 
 
 the supplies of the rest, else you introduce a fatal element o? 
 discord amongst us: and if, instead of thus etldam.! m' you 
 would ensure our mutual concord, it must be such an object 
 at in giving of it enriches even the giver himself £, 
 all these requisites are found in God a\o.ve. He is a smH 
 immortal, immutable, almighty, all-wis. ^ontainin. in C 
 self such boundless excellence as must e, rapture "the mind 
 and nvet the heart, no matter ho^v inconceivaUy expanded 
 hey may become. And our possessions of love to Him 
 that truest we..lth instead of di'minisl.ing, inei'oase th "tor;; 
 of others. We have only to tell them of His c^oodness in 
 
 :;t?o:z:r'^^'- '^^^'^-^ '^ ^ ^'--^^ --■- -i- 
 
 .n!'-!* '^'!k ''i?'^''''" "^"^'^ '''^^ "'' '^^e must CONSEQUKNTLr 
 
 oma. on the human race endlessly increasing sin aJni^. 
 Alas man has made the fearful experiment, and what ha?e 
 been the results ? Formed to find happiness ;nly in God we 
 have, by transferrhgour affections to earthly oh/ects cro'ssed 
 
 consequence has been individual misery and socml disor! 
 
 us vS "I'P'r- "r'""""' °^ "'^''^^'y 'hings can satisfy 
 Sc. """^' ''"^ '^"^■''^ ^''^^''-'^r ^f^e'" '^nfJlf'ss expansion 
 
 these cravmgs are disappointed, and we are thrown bnck nn^n 
 ourselves. And setting our affections on objects, which even, 
 
 i 
 
m^ 
 
 193 
 
 tHB CVKU. 
 
 I f ! 
 
 i(i.i' 
 
 wither on our brou lour '" i ^ ^, "^ ''''P'' ^ur laurel. 
 
 sweetest pleasures pairti; . on ," '" ""'" '''^'^'^^ '^^ 
 
 are often !ho iir.t to peris - 'nl r''' "'^"""'-^' ''•^'^^^''■'"■s 
 
 flict so unequal witluLe /.;."■ ,T '/ ^'^ «o'iclusJon to a cou- 
 *t length co'nos death o t ^ \ f T" ='' ''''' '>'''> '^^''""sS 
 escaped the wreek o/ eh i^-. l)' ''';•; '' T^ »'ave vC; 
 love -of such objects ensu i vf / V ^ " " '^"^ '■»"'••''" ile 
 wealth and po4r om ^ ' fT I ""'^"' ^ ^'"' »''' '^"'■^ 
 There could' scarce Le a Sn n 7. ''"'"^'"^ ''°'' «^'^^'''«- 
 Kothschi)r?3 0, earth, and even V' h '"'' "7 ^ ^'^'"^'''^'J 
 JJ-^'d er, ■; .., ,,., „4 "j^^^^^^J ^^^ « ore could, the .Wea 
 
 Now, does 1...), sh.fj ,K„d a «^ . P . ^g^'""" «''e world. 
 
 every nation's nin,' Ta'T^^f ,'«''! «" ti.e cause of 
 t^uch object. ,, :,|,,-3^ honors and nl^*" '"ordinate love of 
 lence and wron- i^ prod- . « t u P'^^«"''es. with tiio vio. 
 with tear. a.d' bU^^t^J "j"'^^ has drenched the world 
 
 th'« is the exact condition of 0^,"^)' T^^ '" ^^^""'"^ "^^^ 
 m an njstant its crimes and n^isl^r.^s '""'^ '""""'^' '° ^'^'^'"'» 
 
 ;hat ^'c!^i::"^r:t^ ;s:!;;)^r«^'"^ p-p-nic... 
 
 happnicss to any country l,h/'^. ° '"'^"^"''^ ^''''"e and 
 ancient sway, {^^w, tliTis shnnv' M \'''''''.' '^^« '« ''^ 
 ^o*M We have demonstrate S^ttf'''''' f, '^'^ ^'^'''•'■'>"* 
 cure individual and social viruLui '"'^^ "^ ^''^^ '««*^ se- 
 and that its violation J/S/'"Pf''r'' ""^ P''°«P^'-i'y ; 
 >«>sery, and desolation, h S' . *?" '."^ ^^t^nsive crime 
 restored to the i»earts of mL, I' ' *'";''"'"'"^' ^''''^ ""f"' '^ is 
 j;n^eea.rtsofstatesmer;;;i-,:;---^^ 
 
 But in order to this restoration uvo I *'^"^''^^ ^^^lavie,. 
 ^ 1- God's lavvs bein.rrnSLn r^^ ^''dispensable. 
 
 ^.fnent. Of course, for S to let ";'""^- "" '"''""^ ?"' *' 
 ^fhed. were not onll to invit i, "''' ''''''•'" P'''^^ "»P"' 
 »hra,,e, but to forfeit all HaTmo tt""" ""' "^^^'"'•« '''^^ 
 tfuth. Not even an dr. X^ ' !? "''"''"?';'■ °^J'' '«^ - -I 
 
 ./ sovejejgn could permit ; ;,• ki.v« 
 
THB MKDICINE-THK ORAXD sPECIFfC. 
 
 «o .^e fran.plej oi; wiilunit b 
 tmarcliy en tijo cjun 
 jy ills chanictc 
 
 153 
 
 iIIDoillg coil 
 
 "■y ; and for God to d 
 
 i'te love, and 1 
 
 r, an 
 
 'd "ith u the confidence, and 
 
 creation. So that the 
 
 "ue the u/r/Hc and 
 
 fonipt on himself and 
 
 ) «o, were to iJe. 
 
 tlierefbre 
 
 doi 
 
 i""uuns (perhaps a very .small 
 
 pardon of the rehell 
 
 happiness of his ent 
 
 ire 
 
 'ous part of his 
 
 cic 
 
 '"^'f could a sinnrr boar s.icl 
 "•ly 'mpossible. (Jod mnsf n v 
 
 part), could only be cti; cted 
 g his own porf let ions. 
 
 'jcar it, or w 
 
 niu.sf provide son 
 
 punishment ? I 
 
 e are unoo.ne.* Indeed 
 
 t is 
 If ojie who can 
 
 "■eton.alveany re»..r inn f ^""'-'^''''.«" "'t-'rly unable are 
 
 "cco,pt one houf^s X , : . ;;^^.'' ""■'''>^' '^«"'' ^--"Jd 
 
 ^'isobedh.nce, we have U '/ot o ""'"' ^"'" " "^'«'« J'f'^'^ 
 supreme love to (^,d' bei J ""! °"'>' ^^«'"'«« ""r 
 
 fccount, one hour^. intern iiio.rofir''^ ''"'"' I'P"" ''-^ ^^^'^ 
 '^•it because no mere ■/,,erToves r ?? T'' ^' "^^'''t"'^''", 
 Mo/«p„/.t ""-' ''^'^^ ^'^'' «t all, even for a single 
 
 bytme^i;:-^;:;:^^'^^":"; 7'^' f^'T^^ '--^« -It 
 
 law of love in whir-l, v! ^ "'' ^° ^'"^ f'ominion of that 
 
 Without til. ev . Vro^r^;:' '"^''Trl ^•'^"'^ -•« ^"" • 
 0"'- '-arts ar^ placed on eanhk^br""''' "^^ ^^^'^- ^^''''^ 
 not make us ei her virtuon o^h ^'^''' "1^''" ^'^'•^^^'« ^'°"'d 
 
 affections only di.plaJe the "'^,,h, T^\ ?"' ^'' ''^'-^venlv 
 torn with restles^' ssbn« h ^'T'"' '''" ''''^'•f' ^'-"'^^ ''oiuL' 
 
 purity and anl^el J vT "' von '.' ''^' ''''"'' ''''' "^^"-^^^l 
 endlessly increasin.^W/i^ljr '''•'/ '•""'^' '''^ -^^'^^'^ «f 
 
 and improvement. '"^'"''^""'^ ^^"^ *«^"'/ virtue, happiness, 
 
 Now, is it not selfevident ihit rl.V? ,i u 
 ove universally prevaH the eLnl t ^ "^"^^ P^'^^'P^^ °f 
 innocence, and tlLefo^ resume it? F '"'r",-'" ^"'^ ^^'^" 
 »'>at the degree in which i does pre v. In" '"'''"'^^ --^"^ 
 '«rf'c«/ethedogreeofthatLnn7rv « 7 ''"•'^ ''"""^••>'' "^'^^t 
 
 It MUST be so, if we c.n n-' '^•'PP'"^-^« «"d prosperity ? 
 
 fust our exp;rience Fn. f T'""' ^^ ^« «°' '"^ ^e can 
 
 to God and Imm^rno m re 1^,':;:" !"'-'^ '''' '''' '«- 
 I'ons who think so still ^,,.7 i enthusiasm; and mil. 
 
 t 1? "■•.''= ^.""- "'• 23-28 ; Gal. iii. 10-24. 
 t Rom. viii. 7 J JajHCB iv. 4. 
 
 7* 
 
104 
 
 THE CtTRE. 
 
 «!■'''''' -''d'nf of , ho -Jni^t,^^^^^^^^^^^^^ «"d tiK.t ,1,0 
 
 '""" "''''"■« i"w ,.,s fhr. OMV v.v , ' '" '"■'^ '"■'"■' "'^' ^'"""■■ 
 
 /"'• ''!«- Nin.,* „,„, Si t: Sniw:^'-"'' '^"^'^'■"•^^'-' '0 aroL 
 
 '•«"''t"r mar,, „« l,we n e . h 'nf'r' ^^' ^^"."^ ""^^ "^^ 
 cntrrH, But wr- have onlv f V ^ '"''"''^" ^'^"^ "'f' eve it 
 "• "li.^inM which i o compo X "^r^r ''" ^^^^- ^''^^ -me 
 
 -cl.o through Pvnry chamber ofir^ ''^""^ of U, walce an 
 i-"V'uuH in (;n.(.nhuid^ I Ini ^"J>'''ind, and the Mo. 
 
 en'ot.Of,, which had sUvTf\\2 "'"^' "'"" ^^''' ^^-''^^d 
 
 «// Christian rn^rL hat the.o 1, '^ ,^'" "'^ oxperience of 
 
 '« ""TO a «on.o,hin. L'^sn %h !; '''; "^ ?"-^'-'l"i-"t, so 
 dmn^H „|, „„,, .into him and, nn'j'^u '^^ '« ''■^'^'' "P. 
 
 foovor rh.ir for,,, and tone whnl •" '""P'^' '^"^^ ^'^^rent 
 
 could stiff ^"«'«c,tej, lesponses which nothing else 
 
 • Rom, ill, 24 J )y 25 
 J g'li ii, h, 9 , Tiius i,j. 5. 6. "^ '^°''" ^- 5 i 1 Thees. v. 23. 
 
THE MEDICINE-THE aHANI) SPKCIFIC. 165 
 
 were that ,roat la^ :^j!^':^:!;: l^:,^:^^ ^ /'"'^ 
 their orl>its, it were not morn nlJnv J "''' f''""'^^** '" 
 
 talk of re-establishincr tru • ,u ,.^ « i "^"'."'""' "i"" 1° 
 
 i". the lovo which uk,ne"al;"Er. ""n ^ ';^t'n T^"^" 
 pnsiiirj that in davs whon si .-h L, , • ' ""' ^"'" 
 
 that men who can elonuo" , v Z^^^^ ''^ T"' "^"'^'"'^^ ^ 
 
 sunbeam is govemo.lTn i' l^u ' IL ""' "T '^'""' "' "'« 
 seem as if thov thou^^h h ^ n " T^ ■' ""«''""^""^' /««'*. 
 whatever; and tC ^vh t^ H: ' r'";!/: f^" ""'''^^^ 
 plough the ocean, rear the .M.^i . , ' (!"*'"r '""" 
 
 their ministerinrr servant ih.vr'. "!''"u '^^ ^'^'"^"'^ 
 
 be disregarded wi h 1 f'^t 7,^ ^.^ ''^ "'.T'^'' '^^ ^"'^^f «°^''d 
 
 on Its onward march Ruf » l>,»u "'' *^"'^'** 
 
 prevails amongsrus \et issm ST "T"" °^ ''I''^'"" 
 
 earthlv WislflHnn r Kr.A^ J ^'""""^ '"-"^"i the basis of 
 .hose 'e3"^^"„eip,es"t ^ftSZ. fcH; '° T"' 
 mor could aot di^3o wij««. T.^^i^t'^^r.Z':^ 
 
ICO 
 
 '"''' '•TRK. 
 
 The Fruits.- *^'i,,'i "m ; •/ , 
 
 pel, and wo cnn now. oiaI ,„u '"^''"•'f'^y "» l^>c phru.VB fro.,. 
 
 follow the ordc. ubsir "d ulS't' •*="'";' ^'T''"^-. -e .shall 
 
 awakening ,he «,/„rf, puL.r/ S . "" "' '*'" 8""f"-' '" 
 Aearj novating the Xl^'S^^ "•'""":" """""^' ^'" 
 
 1. 7/ie ^M^e/ ««;«;{:««« tfte mind If . 
 bf-ahhy suite, paralyzes it luJ Iv '"P^?""^"' "» ««- 
 mu.t proportiomdiy 'invi.ur; " , "^'^ 'Z;'""' ""^ J'^^j'^v «ta.o, 
 
 •n< .above all otlK-rT c t ^ ' ;:''^^^; -—i^"b?y grand, 
 
 v.m ny Hence hh usua Hv ntl trn'"" ' "' ^'^'"''^ ""'^ 
 maikably contrasfin-r with flu '^- .'^"""''^""fcc, .so re- 
 tracked bro^. WJ,o%.rn d- I f'T'''^'^"^"^ '^'''^^^^^'^ eon. 
 all that n^ost concert r^^^'^; ^'^ %^"«k -I'^h ec.tains 
 very synopsfs c^' the laivs a nd n ' ""''r '^''"*"'"' ^"'^ « t''^> 
 wiiliont fi'ndmtr i„ jt t ,e morn P^'/^'P^^^ of the mifvcrso, 
 
 stimulus to the^nyd r'Sor'''"'?./"^^ '^"^ P^^^'erful 
 f".' Your men of science ^Im' '''^^'f'''''^ ^'^ '^^^^^^ 
 
 only contrast the mere St on tK^'"'' Pountainhead. Now, 
 ^^glifetiineof such amtnli^^ !,'"'"'"'■*"' ""'"'^ ^"'■'■«A' a 
 less trash of Popish egenr':L,nr' ""' I'"' "' '^^ «<-'"-- 
 hue of the kaf k feerfs on J^f ^''^ '^" '"«^«t •"'^^n the 
 -ental diet on t^'^^X^ "r/^'" l!'^ '"«"-- ^ 
 Just what you see in Sd If I" ^^P? '•^-^P'^^tively ? 
 peasant had been nourfnh^d o. the BibT '"'""^i ^''l '''^ ^'"^ 
 in terror at the priests 'reat trn . :°»^*^ *"^ ^»«ve fled 
 turkey-cock ?" ^,nd we.e ii un ver, i'" '"? " ^'°°^ «'• * 
 >^here would be our ho^ wellLani T>. "'^u '""^"g^ "«^ 
 schemes of priestcraft to Fu-'Tk^ ^*^ ^''^ thousand other 
 jredulfty? V effe^ wu, ,d b^fr.» '^^'^"^ '^"^ ^'-^' of 
 have /bund tJrat of Popery to be ^ Th V ''"f^ "''* *^«' ^'^ 
 jmz^rf, and the ProteStl ,L Jw ^'P''^^ '"'"^ me.. 
 Sobbath.each feels the efi^ct ,hr 1 t' "-^ ^'^^' "n the 
 >«r./,«rf and the other SnJrf' ' '^"^ ^^^l '^^'^ o- 
 oonoerns, you see the reS^et S ''' " ^.? '^''' ^^"^^ 
 ?*^. In t».e ^ne case, thJ^hoJe n?5 "^^ ^" '^^'' ''^P^- 
 in the other, it quicke'ns a^'^t S ' TnTu''^ '^''^'^^ ' 
 P • -5 how art, and scienr^ onj . '^'^ »* once ex. 
 
L'liiiipsc (f>: hfi /nuts. 
 •I»isi*fin.'s.s, Me sliall 
 ^11' bulerul inUuerice 
 
 S-'lS of rho gn!^|„,.J i„ 
 
 "■"*'■■ warmm^' the 
 ^ otoboiiig 'or imff, 
 
 soperstjtioii, ita mh. 
 '1. its healthy stnto, 
 Icf. the Clirisliun'.f 
 'f(.(icfivub?y grand, 
 off ita j,'roivth and 
 eounjpnancc, so re- 
 ons if(,"Vf>tce'» eon- 
 ok whreh to<)taifi3 
 creation, and is flif,- 
 3 of the on f verse, 
 ood and powerful 
 )sophy in rmnpari- 
 the sjtreamiels of 
 untarnhead. Now, 
 :al mmd during a 
 hat of the sonsc- 
 »e insect Uxkra the 
 
 influence of such 
 pist resp(^fctive]y ? 
 id of the Clare 
 ould he have fled 
 >nto a goose or a 
 ead amongst us, 
 thousand other 
 n tJie poti.et of 
 -erse of what we 
 i»t'» mind wcaw 
 •ie altar on the 
 pek. Theonp 
 ^ to their rternot 
 all their /^m/jo. 
 
 '^ and deadens; 
 this at once ex. 
 ovemcnt are as 
 ^Poinsii. Nor 
 
 THE MEDICINE—THR QKAA'D SPECIFIC. 
 
 l-)? 
 
 must wc forget Iho jnom 
 
 hiu directly jriveii (c | 
 
 'iH comrib.itioiis which the Bil.j, 
 
 jf li 
 
 10 \v 
 
 f'(i riling and pliil,„^,,,y. i.\,r I 
 
 '"'•'Shippers .,f .so'ie-nco have ail 
 
 ii>w niuiiy 
 
 inii'els stolen fnmi 't • j 
 
 low 
 
 ilieir richest fjnns n'ii 
 
 ' ^ive taken their oily good'thon'.rht 
 
 oniod their idol.s witi, 
 many of our puet.s hav<, .'alhered 
 
 1; 
 
 rt'-soinljled the 
 
 s mines; huw nmnv of 
 
 wht 
 
 s from its 
 
 our infill 
 
 ulc* 
 
 pufres ; and tliuf 
 
 of God aL hZ n * "^' yl'lJor who ev^r sees the eve 
 knows thLvo^i/:;;^:^^^ |-" ^--t'j hin,; X 
 to every dutv ' a ' \ 1 f ■ ' l' '*''■'"''' =*"'' '-^ impollod 
 
 time an":! ete'.ay' " 'not '^f ll''' ^ '" '''--' ^'-n 
 
 of friendship, nor heu °" ' " """•''^''3' ««"'^^^^^'^rthe mask 
 n^i'inight assLssi, Ik 6;hi, trhrd'"""'^' ''•'!;"""''>'' ''"'' 
 under forms of law ? Is ^ nof ^'^^T' "^^ ^'''"'" ^'««'«P« 
 
 breath party i.dlue^ce^ni^xpTreXocl;eil '?'''' ''' 
 riiption must flee appalled th it «^ ^ "f ^''""^^ <'°'*- 
 
 would emerge from XslndrlfnT "^^''-^^'^^d >vorth 
 to honor, and thatlder t tv^av ''"Tr °'"V.'"°"'-" ''°^'' 
 Jiurt or destroy V Oh ' did «? h V"^ '"'"''' '^'^ ^''""f' '" 
 monarch on his throne" -u^ Z ^ '1''="^" ""^^^ «'"' '^^ 'he 
 become the preVdi ^gCVof e'v"eTv f"' l"^ ^J^ ^"'^^'""'^ 
 of every closet, and iheTr^L / ^"""'^/ '^"^ co'"Panion 
 would the earth lock ut /r^T h ^""7 heart, hov/ soon 
 pristine smile of' tarsa£7oy^^^ -h her 
 
 aivine, the pronhet's mr.«t ri • • "^ ^ >vstem so 
 
 arc strippedVf thei- Ztr^ri"? ^'T'' f *'"' '""'enniu-. 
 If it only prevailed hTJL ''•^"sformed into sober prose, 
 criminals ? Yetlen wt I ' 'I'^f '" ,T''^ '^ ''^•' ^'"'"''^ -"d 
 
 I 
 
158 
 
 Till CtTRE. 
 
 W» c.|„u,„ „„J wall, d I ' , ' ,7:'"' •; "• 11. i'l.,,.d 
 
 and fi |p,| |l, ,,,1 vvifl, .1. ""^'Pfs , It IMS r.'iircil its nsyJunis 
 
 rol»xod, luxury has d.ult i fb 'd o hn ''' '^"'"l"'"'^ ''"^ 
 cast i,s jewels to tho poor. S^t^i^,T"''^^ ""'' ""'"''y 
 oil into the sfrar.crf.,'s wn.ind. f ^ f^'inanrnn penning 
 
 ">ir by (ho dyinc'/bnd ' sK , / ^ '" 'mman /bn,, slnint 
 
 Rome J Do our bard. « r .L •^''"'' ^"^""""e ^''t'ece and 
 architeots. orscuttsC'fe our builders the"; 
 
 Ciceros? They have eft behind hi ''' °"'' '"*"'°''« ^^eir 
 «nd cruelty in Abundance ; the ^^^^^^ '-nu^^ents of pride 
 mercy and love? Puss fhrmmh r , . '^ monuments of 
 
 of her power; or survey at fir/'" ^"'^ ^' '*>« ^-"'-'h 
 ma-nificence/glowi rr,f thi 1 'r""^'^«^ ''"'"8 of proud 
 You paze on hat alh hentrp''r'"'^°'"' °^ "" ^''^'•^" «""«et. 
 CHpi,oI.-.,he Pami eZ^ he Poilr'll '" p'"' -onders-the 
 ofTitUM-the Coliseum, where men r 1 ^T''"T'^''^ ^'^^ 
 ^ent. And is .here T«, Zm din ;'"'''"''''' '°'" ^'""««- 
 mercy ?-no hospital fr.h; s ck-n! n v °"*^/"?"'^«"t of 
 j-no school for the poor? nT ^^J on? ""V^;'''' '''''''^«« 
 difficult to find in their purest H.l;! • ^""^ " ^""''^ ^e 
 ing to cur idea of UL^;?f .'J^^.V'''"'^ ^ ^"'"^ ^''^^^e'-- 
 tion, ard did not waChetmeT "«^«'- P°-««^ed the institu. 
 
 ty -niot fu;lt;t:tt^^^^^^^^ C'-'^^iani. 
 
THE MEDICINE-THE OHAND SPECIFIC. 159 
 
 t<''«"'- of the Divino nalnr . ' —" '".' '' "^ '''''"'''' " » P'^''- 
 
 c.. A^iiek ,1.0 L^ 't;:, i .^':;;^;;;7;- j;f' "- ^'^'-. 
 
 fears his (i,r|, {^ he likelv to f v. .nV ''"'"""" " ''« 
 
 tc>.l to a nrocfss which iii.h.fl,,; lu/ . ,""'' '^ ''"^•''C- 
 
 p-css ihich as i'"!:fini;l'iy' !^.; ;::?':^;i;^ ! °'''-- '7 
 
 ff'oi.s suporioritv in ih. tone ofti;^ fbrrnVr Th "" '""'"''* 
 found in her trtlo nlmp I v t iL ; ? ' ^.'''^' '''°'^'»'^ '^ 
 
 rit'lto of p opertv &„ an l,v L " " '''""''»''''« on l,e 
 
 ^f^;d°l:r.r;;':;ri;:l'tif!^r,.t:;rrs'''™ 
 
 t" enable him to do so if he will sincerely sT;k it u'Z" '"^ 
 
 ^IZ^?'' r ^"'^ '■" '''' -y^rind'i'nlhrinS: 
 »Uv06eua. Now, miM mjt Buoh a religion perfectly 
 
I' ill! 
 I' ' 
 
 I/: 
 
 160 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 people be. rcatlcs. who arc tlius taught - to be conient ;" or 
 cLsloyal, who "fear God and honorlho king;" or dilonvj 
 
 of being 'sotbful in business ;" or turbulent, who " foilo^v 
 
 Kople, unituj families, honest masters, and faithfni servants ? 
 
 >ou address yourselves irst to men's temporal interests:- 
 
 ^e each iheni to "serk J!r.f. ,he kingdom of God and his 
 
 nglUeouHness '' and this nceessarily involving every sirdi! 
 
 nato ooject ' all other things are" of consequence - added." 
 
 «^^■T.f I .'"'.V'"^ ''' ^""' "'^ "^^"'•^' '?/"-«'-*'^ their du.y o 
 man; and by tin. simple means of prevailinrj on them to sec k 
 
 heir eternal salvation we bind the'n afor^ori to ob ei^ dl 
 
 those virtues which enhance their temporal state 
 
 L.reat'np:. Tr ^' statesmen, is the source of true national 
 greatness. If you wouW bring back the golden a^e, it is not 
 
 onrSr^?''""^' ""r.^"''^' ^"^ by The nobler 'alchemy 
 tioi Ltolp tl y°".^^""'^' ""P''«ve a people's social cond^ 
 tion, imp.ove their religious tone ; and the effect of this will 
 go out in directions of which you never thought. A^ | e 
 morning sun enables the shepherd to guide his Lks o pa ! 
 ture, but IS by the- same beams waking a thousand forms of 
 
 vt ?n , T' '" ^'""'"^ '''^ ^^" °' Righteousness enable 
 vou to guide this great nation, and at the same time shed on 
 
 ton v''"T /'' -"r °^ ^^•''''^'' y«" "'''' d'-^'^^ed. Here 
 too, ye patriots, is the true parent of Uberly. The Saviour 
 was one of the people; and it were impossH,lo to alf obey 
 h s precepts without banishing all despotism from ^the earth 
 Here is the true friend of equal rights; fbrbiddin^r like ,he 
 tyranny of the sovereign and the treason of the subiecT 
 Here i. the inspirer of that genuine ;pa/no//.m to which so 
 many only pretend, and the parent of that peace of wj ich vour 
 
 liands of the P ince of peace his own proper wo-k, these 
 Utopian visionaries lately assembled in theC ystal Palace as 
 their temple of concord ; but their schemes of peace , roved as 
 f agile as the building they met in. There^« all'nSs'' 
 shook hands, it is true ; but thence they departed, an "rumors 
 
 trurtlli""'"''^ r'''^ 'P'""^ "P • Alas! they k'nev, not the 
 true talwraan of peace, which alone cap raako mm « beat 
 
THB MEDICINE-THK r.RXND SPECIFIC, ^ 
 
 K;T'^;:'^ P;^;^;^--' r^ t^ir spoa. mto pruning. 
 True, many bel ve s WS T' "^ '"^^'^'^'"h '-eu],!;. 
 for believing. C o ,' tl "'7,;vould Imvo le.s^ but 
 ^x'ssing those qu,2.'' '"•'''/' ^''''''^""" ^^iil".ut po«. 
 to advancement An;i ^ '^'T^ '^''' ^•''^'•"^^-•. ^vhieh Ld 
 
 career of tl^^o^v^^'o 'p h ' "VV v"^ ""''^ ^"""'-^ "'« 
 ^Ii«ciples of 'Jesus Andal ■ '. ^ '" >""' ^^•'"' "'^tof ihe 
 it i)oi less wonderfulH s J; ■ ^''^''^ '^'"' ^'^^' '" -^■"'•''. 
 
 oh,thetrebrwt',:7&'t:;:^::^^^^ 
 
 men to misery • nrvt to ,T . . " f ^'^'^"'^^ ""'" country, 
 and then to iflienste?, ''''"'' ^\ -Hgion so eonsolin^f; 
 Newman says 1 at r 1 "^ r ^^''^'^"' ' ^ '^^ 
 
 greatness!!^ Ano 1 e ^p^oof /b . / ^'''^r'"- ^° ^'"'' ^ "'^"""'^ 
 
 must " exalt it." The Sun nf iV; i ''"''' ''«^'« ''^^^^ 
 
 for both worIds;_ro ' tl 1 nl ^ 1 r'"'"'^"'^'''"'^* "^^'^ f^^^^^ 
 not only revealL tilt ! ^^^^ n^'urV""' ''" ^^P^' 
 
 spreads a mantle of beauty ove I e e uih S ' ''""^' ,'^"^ 
 He not only reveal our muZl /,.,,' ^'''^^ °" '" ^''o '^"f'S 
 tf^e "vauj reln.Yonsof mn ; ,^ '" ^"^' '"' ^P''^''^'^^ ^^or all 
 
 tliemain, clor Uivi,!, v,r,l,,,,,i •*'"■" "»'■■«"•"' to 
 
 to brne God's ntnuh. ,, """'^^ oljccU I rue, tbi.s nn^je sent 
 travel on lit S ™ """' "•""""'" "'^^ ^''^'^''^ "- P^ "> ^^vy 
 
 Jionor, to view it , f "'"^y- ^nd it were an insult, not aii 
 
 glory'as a X I- of suTXr'^:! "' f';'""' ""'' ''""^^^ "« 
 pose that Chris, its auth b " ' "".'' "' '^'^"''^ '«" "« '» ''^^'P- 
 tol>eal mrn's bodies ad nn?"'' '" T""'""' "'« ^^i^'<. -"nle 
 concern is .v"? S.! ^^°V^«='^■^ »''^^"' «ouls. I,,sf,rand 
 
 concern is with atern v A 7 """' '^""'•'^- '''^ 
 wun oteinity. And as our whole line of 
 
 ar<ru. 
 
 Wiiliaiup. 
 
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 162 
 
 THE CUES. 
 
 fbrdnn^^'SS^ demonstrated that ft, and it alone, can fit 
 o heaven, additional proof is perfectly useless. Since then 
 
 iLlT^Jr'-t '^^ °PPr'"""y 'f'"^ «ff'"'-decl of making ou 
 appeal to the heart. Then, dear reader, whoever you are 
 bear with one remark. The subject of this work ij almS 
 of a^n'^nSe'! '7'''' '^.' •"'^'^'^"«' conscience. Speaking 
 
 oirL7Zi ' °"'' V' 'P' '° ^"' '"^' '■" the crowd ; but 
 
 our national connection, how brief it is ! Soon must we re 
 -re from the scene, and leave our country in other h^nds" 
 
 aknn-r P^^^'f '""jr^''""^' '^' ^'^"^ c^oncerned abou /^ 
 salvation, we should be found to have neglected our own ' 
 How ,.s u w„h vo. ? If heaven at all differs from earth! vou 
 would gam nothm;; by being removed thither without under" 
 
 Henir^ it T"^ f ''^"''^ ^' y°" ^^' '^^' difference. 
 Hence as it is a place of holiness, '« ynu must be horn again'' 
 and undergo the sweetening process of vrogres.ive saSa. 
 tion. Is your ^race then ripening m\o glory, ybur path shi 
 nmg MORE AND MORE / It is thus you nmy read vou dest ny 
 in your cW^er and life ; and this is the only .nfalhble test 
 Then, by the worth of your souls we implore you to pply ' 
 Indiff3rence here is the worst kind of insanity.^ indiffeSe 
 --ma case m wh ch enthusiasm is sobriety, and exaZra' 
 tion IS impossible -the wildest fimaticism were ration! 1 Tn 
 comparison, and the gloomiest skepticism not half so perils 
 Such IS a mere outline of the fruits of the gospel of Christ 
 
 eanh wi r ben ^"'' '"/ 'T'^ ^""^ ^'^ first'ad^vent, and he 
 earth wil become vocal at his second. Yet «« these are but 
 
 haCfl lik^^' r' ^" '^"^'"^^ '"^'^ brief sketch, we 
 masthead InH T'k''^. «u>-veys the placid ocean from the 
 masthead, and can but descry a ^gsv miles around, while a 
 
 ^on"d 1^ME?"",f "^^^■'^ ''T'^^' ^^-y undiscoveTed be' 
 yond. let this IS the system of which some exclaim, " What 
 
 has re igion to do with national greatness?" and men who 
 
 W.1 sit at the feet of Smith and Blackstone, to lean the se" 
 
 I ^ a, "«»!on's. government, will scorn to sit at the eet of 
 
 Jesus! If his minister present his great statute-book at the 
 
 senate house, he is told that its spherl is the nursery o he 
 
 asked, What has religion to do with learning? And if he 
 would in reduce It to the school-house, he is informed t at it 
 nJn fi^^ ^ ^^''t '° P"' '"^° '''« hands of children ! Are the 
 men fit to rule this great empire who do not yet know V/.a' 
 
THB MEDIcmH--rHB OHAND SPECIFIC. 103 
 
 '"^."fSjJn^S" '"!?'• ^^° -" -' 'earn 
 
 those of thP Cross' who !i ^' '.^^ f"'"<ster.s of ihe Crown, or 
 bulent have been Zlina'T" '^Z ".'"V^'^''' ' ^'^''« 'he tur. 
 that northed c:"Cfon^^ S^Jk l''' "'''^^'-^^-. visit 
 decorum, their quiltnesTsonr.r/r'' !"'«"'.?""ce' their 
 
 are your police ^o.-rlnS- "" '" ^^'^"' ^'•«^'"«- Where 
 not tire rtiryZltZV^^ 7^^^"*^ l '^^^^ -« 
 tbis ? A singk /ospe filler TU . "'. ''^'? ^^^ ^""« «" 
 has hushed That^Hsh t"; ninol Th.? ''"'f ''! '^ 7'"^^ 
 which has sown it so thick w h 7!l /^bat man's hand it is 
 seen there ; with iLhf ^Lt '^"'"■^' '^'^^ "° beggar is 
 
 and with pp'acr hat lerin"^"'"'''''"" '" ""known there; 
 breach of'^^he pPaoe irke t ,n '^"'"'°'* '° ??'"^ ^^^-^e' '^e only 
 
 by hi.nself • a.*^ hfs sec e^t s T/ ^''"''^ ^"^ °"^ ^'^'"'"'"^^ 
 vou TTA T,«I u secret is— the glorious gospel Or iT 
 
 srosfthrctd^r ^° '^r ['"'^ ^^^-^ ^-- ^^^ - 
 
 Soof, once as wild as i.^^ ''•''' '•''"' '^'^ ''"^"«^' '^e rugged 
 
 gIad.;essover : ts b err'lvSt:."' ^'j' ^^"^^ ^^ 
 gospel ? And if you will 2 r J u '^ ''''' ^''^ everlasting 
 
 surely vou m\\ hZZuiX^T^A' ''"' "\''"'' ^"^^'« ''P«^ 
 Ch.lmeVs-when he tell vn^w T"^, ' °:.'" ^'^'«^^''^-^« ^'-^tor-l 
 of their ancestors wm I T '' ''"' f"' ^'"■«' ""'e ferocity 
 
 -subdu.d.to^rh;%S^. rerS ^^'d^^f'^"^' ^"^ 
 of 1)031 ity would still hnv. I ? ^ ''® darkenmg sp rit 
 
 these plains, now so Pe cll3"' ?''' "' ^'''"' "^^^ "°''h ; 
 open to the furv of nS 1 T ^'"'PP'^' '^°"' ' have lair 
 
 timen.al travefers "1^ ^n l^r"^'""'- P'^' ^^ '^^^^ '^"^ -""■ 
 land, you are igl 1 cl ooselhr securely over this ronantic 
 
 ments of nature ? e asIeoD nl ''?'"" "'•^"" '''" «"fe"->' ^J^' 
 to their long repoi ,h7mo e d^^ ir I'V' " '^'"' has charmed 
 sion and humanTniustice ? Wll '' f'T^'"« o^ human pas. 
 
 boisterous spir t o?^h:r „ Jives^^UV l^f t' ^"^"-d the 
 as fiercelv nnri hL " "'^es ?— and whde her torrents roar 
 
 -hat i t fat . ic'h haTtC:" '"7 '"^' ""' ^'^^ -« -- 
 the minds and mfnne 's of h' ' r"''^''"'"". '^" '"«"^"«« «ve 
 «'ould thev We been It ,hT '"^ ^T'^''^" •" " ^hat 
 
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 TAB CURE 
 
 CHAPTER irr. 
 
 TREATMENT— I.XFOR.MATION. ' 
 
 'on« flourished on'ft^t.r ; Jl' - -;'«• '-- „„, 
 realms, we see but the skirts nf T^^ f \ "'^''^ ^«PP^ 
 
 tLatgood old horror of pi ;thio. 1""' ^T?^^' ^^'''^« 
 has grown unpopular- LT ll>. "'' ^""^^y ^''^^"^''^ ^elt, 
 
 Protestants wllc^vhie revel "n';;.!?;-""? "P ^-•-« -^ 
 fathers wruncr fVom hor wiH f u ^^'^'^^'^'^ ^^1 id, those 
 
 narrow.nnnded bTotsT-n h'?'"°^' '^'T"''' ^''^^^ «« 
 
 den.nation-who Mnx'^TK ,.- f "'"u "'"^'^ '^ ^''^^i'' ^o"- 
 
 and furnish Ro e w h^cM r? ' ^'"'"'^ ^tumhling-block, 
 sun,e to read uT ec7u ^s on Ci /^'"""^'^^'-^vho eu.i pre! 
 
 are chiefly to thanl"7orThe ^Tr^r^tr^orp''-^^"^ ^^^ 
 amongst us, and that snielrM n u ?^ ' °f"''' P'^^'f''" 
 
 whicir the kingdom beg nfti Tef '^^ '^^"'^'li^-"' -^er 
 have followed their ex-imnl,!- r "•''''' ^''^^ '"^"' «oo, 
 
 "beast," they ave tSht 'in ,1 •'^^^^'""S '^at Rome is a 
 conciliate her%.rdeoJ;;;V^^^^ '° ^"^^"^ ^"^ 
 
 "•i'ich God himself a ;irrir' <.Vi:^iK'';;s"''"''"'^ 
 
 their parlance, the soverirm nnnffr ^"^ ^'^" of Sin" is, in 
 Iniquity," the Catholie^Chu:^,^'^?^;::;^ 'Vi^V^ °' 
 and the •' pric.is," the Catholic cler .W Hv .1 L ^""'^'''^'f"^ 
 have thought to conciliate Rome as 'L-" s.i^n Tu'' ''"'>^ 
 qutshed by smiles and comphm nr^ f Ld tl '^ ^' "'''"■ 
 pie, as if tlie best wav to al , mVi • ° '^""'"^^''^ ''«''' P^o- 
 
 their danger ! Alas^s "elf; ^n i,'h'''°[''' ''''' '" half eonJeai 
 <^od usudlv bono r V . , r r "'" V^''" "°'" '^'^ "'^«"« 
 our country's 'rea bestrov, T "'V'^' T^' "" ^^''"» ^"■'"^"^'« 
 we would onfy sav tl t^ I '"'"''' '" ^"^'^ ^°"'''^'«y J 
 
 Popish ''Antijui"'^ ',, r;:^;:;^ rr" ^""""^-the 
 
 '"ent" than eiiher Eiij lor „ R "'^ '?./' '''''' '"^' '•«'- 
 
 ti'ought that blan.hl; '1: 'Z^Zli ,U °""f ^^ °"^« 
 rience has taught us God's in i i . „ ^oldnrss ; but e.xpe- 
 sternness to hTs best r 2^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 LutJier and Knox were so n'ch r '"''^'^ ''^'^'"''''^ "'^y 
 ^vere so much more successful tJian Cran- 
 
rREATM8I»T^I,VF0BMATl0If. w, 
 
 'ner and Melaricthon. Now «, 
 
 f"'«placed sauvity, and in ordpHh"""'' ^^* '^°^^" ^^th this 
 '" ;vhich Protestant pseido fb ' H^'^'t' ''7 ""^ "^« d-'^Pe'-y 
 and nncover I.er nakednes^to nnllr ^'' "^"'^"^ ""^ ^^"'-^ 
 ^^>^ns that the whole natfon shal mT' f " ^'^ "^^^^^ take 
 ««c« w.thher; and then they tvlMnf '''?'' ^^^^^^^"'-^^^^^^^^ 
 '^e-- 's entitled to as much SteJv p ""^ '^" "''-^t the roh. 
 "ess to her is cruelty to iTvicS/^ '^°"'^' ""^ "^^ g-''- 
 
 P<'pery too much an ecclesL^r i ^ ^^"^ '"''^'^'^ ^i^estion of 
 reason .ky ..^ny feeT^o S ^.f ,.:;"^/' ^^^ l'"'^ ^^V '- the 
 '"^«t P^irt, a sectarian snuabi L '? , '/"^ ^««'" it, for the 
 Now we must deal more whh L ' T'"^ importance, 
 
 that u concerns the politfcian as v T'^^'f "^ ^-^'"^ ' «how 
 cn.zenofthisvvorldaswe LZ! '' '''" theologian: the 
 eo" vict it as man's ^rearfoe not mo'TT' "^ ^'^^ "^"^^ ' -"^ 
 from .c..«ce andy?,c,. ft hL n Z v ^- ''"'" ''^^^''^tion, but 
 ^^'"le we treat it on mere v n^.f P™^'^'^"^ advantaj^e of us 
 Fovnce so ropuIsivHo oVe f^i'lf ''""^'^ '. ^-" ^^at is a 
 t'^t they will not follow usTnl T w '"y''"^^' to others, 
 «akes come down from the moVn; • a '""'!' '''""' ^^'^ their 
 n-t the philosophic Greek onrVfTill' "' ^'',t ^•■^^' ^P^^tle 
 t-ous Jew in the temple and w,' "' '"''^ ^' '''^ ''"P^'-- 
 a^iapted to each, so must we show Z w-"'"f' "'"^^ admirably 
 
 o/f^i/, of this question nt P '^" '? ''^^'om^ men the ihe. 
 
 -' ; had its f-alseno^r been! ZX'r.^°"'^ ^"^" ^-" '^^^ - 
 nd pinlosophy, as well as to Sn r'^X^" ^PP^«' to fact 
 be a vio ation of the greauZZ'T/^ '■ ''"' '' ^''" '^hown to 
 "cantations of witchcraft, wh-/pt.in'''''''i'.''^''' '^"«'' «'^ the 
 ''^^nn. the same fate ? A easr, . """' ^''"'^"'"^ '^' ^''^'^ 
 hear the cry of practical inf d lUv lit'] T "'""'^' "'^' "°^- 
 ^^ithscience?-northatnf 1 I ■'. ^"^^ has religion to do 
 ^0 'io with reli,i:.;£', -^J,7^ Whath^sscLnce 
 
 Popery characterized as the eSn-u-'^^ "''P^'^'^ «gai"st 
 endowed forte: ohin. tran ubs^nT, ■ ^^^"''■^ ' "°'- « oolle^^e 
 ^-J'- P'-opagatin. l.e '^Iind^^;;i^n •'"' "?-'' '""'"'^ '^^^ «^hools 
 ;>lephant's back, or the Peru vh J '"r "" ""''"' "-^^^^ «" an 
 f^'npts of a dragon to devoir th^un" '"' ''^'P'^^^ '^''^ «^- 
 
 -™:s "^zi^zz^t^^^ '^ '' ^"^-'« --^ 
 
 ^--t3u.ci.ntpain..tra;^t^-::-,^^^^^ 
 
ICfi 
 
 TOB ctrsr. 
 
 salvation V7re K;^ra^WnVs:S; 'lL°/''"'T'°f 
 Spirt, reproducpH ivitK v„ • , "'^' and % a divine 
 
 cL».ia„irythr«:™":;Tz»trr/f',;™ ''■''■ 
 
 reach Pope^yTt' m^ f rj^l v^ird"^'. '"' T 
 
 Popery and ™vf hat in, ,'h "' ,''7 "' °"«*" '" '"'"'"^ 
 Satan's experenoe in the art of n in "" '^''''''f »S=^s of 
 
 borrowed from thp Pnn . 'l ^"'^ "'onastic austerities, 
 
 Ay, and so shameless has beeitthe tiarfsm"t"h /^^'^'•^^°^-^- 
 IS accurately described in VirLWl's ETh^' "^ P"''^'it«'y 
 of Peter at Aome is the idenS Itatfe o J /ot J'^"/ r'"^^"^ 
 even tlie Pope's chair is said to have been n^rS^r'""f ' 
 Mussu man • and nnm.,l„o in " piUered from the 
 
 pln/o^„l.y of Lpe,y, an/ "o ttlfh::^ ,T?c/: r ^"7' 
 o ev,l, contrivod .vi,h ,fea,ful .kill to h« t "ver^ tw TS 
 aiitl of our natnrp nnH »« r.^; „ .i . •'^'^ '.v mw or uod 
 
 all und.r au;to:t^•^"oni:C"L rfr?'"'"? "'^^^'^V'^ ' «"^ 
 
 it should be our laboPto h^v^that PonerTw "'I'' ^" ^ ^^^'■'^' 
 
 " 5»iiu.y inai ropery was born at the full, 
 
 • Seyruour'8 Pilgrimage Jo Rom«. 
 
? souls; and that 
 
 TREATMENT—INFORMATIOIT. 197 
 
 the fir^a^m^nuillt urLln'Thf r,; 'olTftf ^'^^^^^'^ 
 reality Popery was Satan". « * ^ • '°""'^ ^^X' so in 
 
 spirit Vu can'^dS c'y ra e th^oulTllT. ^^^°- ^'«'»-d 
 i^^s7o:^^^^^^^ tactics .„ ... 
 
 Englishman, honest himself! H ^"f ^^^^aracter. The 
 and to fome that ft i^Th. ".'^'■''P°«^'' ^^ think all others so, 
 sweetly, a^nTtheN^^reatilt T '!! '^T'''''' ^^° «"^'J« ^"s 
 
 nation's, has bLn aLrif, '^ V''^'"' r/^i^es laws to the 
 priests. And to what tp wf, '^'^ and frightened by a Few 
 great error? lu t a1 SlndT""'-*^7.^^^^ ^"■'"^'^ ^^is 
 croached ; and she has t£rf 5'« ^''"J^"^' ^^^^ ^ave en. 
 knocked Lnder Ti'e mnri ^?" ■?."' '^'^^ ^^^^ ^^ o»ce 
 
 Irish Cerberuse; thev haT nnl'"^' '^" ,^? ^'•'•°^^" »^ ^hese 
 has never chastised tltm hn^.r^'T^'^ *'^" '°"^^'"' «"d «he 
 dens. In 1641 the t«?n.nfr^K''r"r^'"''^^ '"^° "'^^^ 
 lion ; Cromwell camp i^^J ^ of Charles brought on a rebel. 
 
 thut'honesTmenSl einillrS^^ "^'^ ''^V^""'^>^ 
 the latter end of last cen urv tb/v / V''^'""'"^ ^^f^'*- I" 
 smoke and rumble Ph Z'. • ^""T ^'"'"' ""^^^ ""^'^ to 
 promised emrctationTho^ "?;,•' ^^'^^'^ a college, and 
 ti.de he recPivTd'? S;.7 '^"^ ''°" "^^^^^ "'as the grati. 
 false «o.So« Ld occS^^^^ J"^^' ^'- ^^'orm .fhich 
 
 «od, when the priests urnedt ,^^'•'^//»t^7aI only e!ap. 
 
 rebellion ; concession m^ tlin tdoT. ''^^'1! ""^ ■''^"^^'"""^ 
 emancipation was rrrtntlJ ,tf If ', '^"'^ "'hen, in 1829, 
 
 would EonceS ?e " ut't L-^T' ^'^t^^^ '''^" ^'-T 
 day ? No ; agitation on ly inc^^se "L^^'^ '""f '''^^^« '^ 
 It, increased thV- Mavnon h -Irolf ' ^ ""'" ''"'^''^' '^ quiet 
 ay, and apprLh^^Zl!T^] PJ^Posed to endow the priest, 
 "his Irish S'' as hi I "^^^'1 *^«*^ to heg he would keep 
 
 thateven a&,au:h?pTartV" "! ^'■'^'- '-- 
 
 would pension the d;: H 'if • T jf '° ''^''''^'"'' " '^''ey 
 priests quiet." VVol thh J / ' 'T\'^ '^''""^'^^ '^ '^^^P ^he 
 rebellion ; troops one. n orf/ ^""'"? "' ^'^^"'•^' '" «"o'her 
 
 r. . v.— ^ugland arose-and the Popa 
 
 
f 
 
 lot 
 
 THE CUBE. 
 
 ^^'•f"nr,. AHmnnUn^!^ZZ r ' T^ '"'"""^^ t'>« " Catholic 
 ^"1' tli/M nlwurd nnrl nHnnn r ^°\' '^"^ "'"^^ ?^'t done 
 
 n^w;' Yrrnml Inr ''''^"''''"-- ^^ '"t their «5.A/- 
 i'' poll....' ,; ho r nnW. ' T""'"^"!,-' ^vhose every town 
 J« 't th.ir /oIC yIT ' r^^ ^^''""''^ ^y their outrages. 
 An.| HhallT^on.inT'e ^v^r •""'■ l'"'''''"""'^ ''' ^^e proofs J 
 
 f««lmjf thov nre rnrlry • -n"^ hatred of Enrrland the 
 "«"')Hofcn,n«rnn.sao vVa Iv ' "■^"' '"'''^^«' t'"*^ »hou. 
 
 homo the, win b,S." van " " '!i"'"' transatlantic 
 "i«'>.niKd. that were anrnf^r A '"^ * ^''^ malediction; 
 
 nr.d their very children wn^dH ^^ 'hose of her own household, 
 v-..n tl.r.ir r.Uho;' r^;:" 1^^,^ a sacred duty to re.' 
 
 P'luiH to diH^ruiMP tl.r.;.. -^ /'ideed, Irish pnests take no 
 
 i':"«la..d' Cst" n Sl:"r' '''^'' '' ^^^'^'^ 'heir joy at 
 tlioFr dehVh fo pv r ^'"harrassrnents ;-who can forget 
 
 tudo couM Imvn h f r*^, '^^' ""^ transient -low of grati- 
 -"■ely hll Tl ;Tw',tl'/" '^f ^''-^^^' it wouldLve 
 f'o.n th« Queen ,of(?^ ■^.^"^'"^f dunn^ the flunine ; when, 
 
 f". «II ra 'a H tses" o.'"', ''"," '" ^'^"^'^'^ '° '^Vthea-' 
 Well, Hearcp ha IhTf '• 1 '" V""'" "i^nificent offerinas. 
 
 Kuro pe ocSVri' h, nnvits'r H^' "'^^" ^'^^ convulsions'of 
 at the proHpec of nXSh '^•""^""""^"' t'^^''" '''^^'^^i' 
 "-"rj at,d i , Leof h1 » /'""^ '"?''^'^ •■" ^ continental 
 ThN«, vvlnrZtain's m 7 ^°"-'"^f'' '''^ rebellion of 1848 
 t«'"l>t to Tb he I ear" he'r 'V'^""'" "'"^'^« '''^ '^ey afi 
 th-n. ftlivo a l,;rvir • '^"^'^''^"■'^^■^ ^^hich had saved 
 
 Rou.e wan li £ ,fj"" J"t?[0'^'"d for the remark, « That 
 
 th^r;;'?:'(:rt*:e:r^^n"T' ^'^^ '7-P^t.ton,ue that 
 
 I niiMiiiilimiin II 
 
THElTMENT-INFonMAUON. jq^ 
 
 twofold cLrac?e SZ^Zl^T; '"''rr^'"«'' i«erthe 
 dare not be the or,o, s e ZlilV\ '""' ."''*' ^^'^^'^ «he 
 that while in Nap le^ shV?«T • "V^'"' ""'"'•-forgetfinc 
 dead and dyin. cWives i . l7'"f ^'' "^^'''''"'^ l«'r witg 
 ness drops Lr^ Tefl, ^'^ ' , ,^' f d '': V';?"'*^^ '^^ --'^■ 
 fng all this, multitudcfs stil So "t^ "^■^'^'''"T'-^°''S«t- 
 protestations of innocence in nth 7?' W^^ ^''^zea 
 traded on this incomprehenS 1^8,0 nld.d";^ "i^'f ""^^ ''"« '^^ 
 mild because she dare nrbe Ll' l' ' r '"^ ''^y, «''« " 
 cence she complains of ourbk^otrv • n .7 "i'^ ■"''"'■'■'' ^'""o- 
 of virgin loveliness over I erlS' J".^ adju«t,,,g the mask 
 angel purity over her hidemJI r ' ^«''''' ^''''1\ «"d the robe of 
 n>inste?Jooi-ng up tJhetrwhir;.^ ^ ^Ib through VVest- 
 And many beueve HEa' Sca^l T ''^ ''""''' "-^^'K^a^'on ? 
 been her dress, but now it is vl iin T^ V\ T^ °"«« ^^^ve 
 Will no amount of treacherv on5n V'"" ' l^^-^'^^ted men ! 
 really adduce in pro^f of Kve^Z f ^'" ^~'*"'' *'" y°« 
 lated smile which most clear! vn^n ''"T"''^' '''*' «'"^"- 
 whose ^^*''>^ P"^**^®* '>cr the child of him 
 
 The eye ofETe--^?""'' ''"™'' e'r«8ioa, t«rne| at le.gtfc 
 
 ^ill you not at least believe herse/r^r^,. ,u 
 that England is the dazzling p,V«^^^^^ 
 Were you not told bv Father Knl- ^^'"f^S^^>* for?— 
 ties'; for her conversiL an^d of the 3^ V' ^r^^'"^ ^°«'«- 
 lately granted to all wL would Tv 2 -1-^, ,';'^"'^«"^« 
 ihis object? Were you n^t tl ^ V„ '"' ^/'y-" ^°' 
 servant societies," for enabHnrr .i,«7 "^"^l' °^ "•^««"'t 
 creep into Protestant famfneslf thZ, '^'''r f "'^"^'■"d to 
 not the bull "/«c«^«rS«V' l!l?''''''^'^°'^«''''<'«? I» 
 holy Thursday, thus pro^rto all w. ''"" '""'•^ '^^'^P^' «^<=h 
 that Rome has^'neverSntt L^ doZ"/' '^'"l^^f "P«^ 
 fealty ? And if she claims t«r;r '^°'"*"<^» «« ^-ng'and's 
 ■cannot, will she notdo rthe fil^ "'"* "' "^ ^^«" «he 
 think you the man who fo^r tht ^CTZThU? TI' ' ^"^ 
 »ng, and his Jesuits orowlin* ,,3?u i ^^ ""* '""*"°« Pi'ay- 
 our Queen from her tCe if rin '""1' '^^"'^ ""^ ''"^» 
 Jame. ia her roo^r TL''let''2rl;L*l?4r^''^'•^ °^ » 
 
170 
 
 THE CUBE. 
 
 design is on thatKd.n ofProU s.^an „, nnd he iT" ^'"" 
 been stoaling strnJilv townrrl^ ;« . j' ? . '"'** ^"'' >''■«'•■" 
 
 "» ..i<i„g «ci,cui„!^»"-r"f ,„",;„„' ■,!;;• "'» '.- to,., 
 
 hiding anionpst the flowers tr, pI,,^^,/ s'mple, or «^«,„ 
 
 this one tJ.ing, ihat on he comes A^fn. "^^"''"'^ "^ 
 
 Rome I.as for once made a bSr^ .Id f " ^'""- '"^ """ 
 spring, „,ay now slink into ih. fjlu't n<l ^^,'"^7"^^^'^' ^or 
 tunity— even xrraniin.T ilZ . . ..' "'"' '^"^^ " better onnor. 
 
 ioiselcssly 'to exS K L ' T'"" f' '" "'''^•' "'^" "^""^ 
 
 profit by I,er LJylZjiftl^' "'^^g^'' "^ ? She will 
 lionoiSamnsoi. ..■ I /"^ • ^^/^° "ot, the stolid infatna- 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 TREATMKNT—LEGISI^TION. 
 
 Kc^i^tb^^rii^^rri-it!^ 
 
 as well as his viearfand we rs a crorn^aV^f-f^ ^ ^'^^^^ 
 that "all power is Christ^s in henv^n a '^ "" "^ ^"''^^-^ J 
 must therefore be A^S as C Lt^ J """^ ""^ '^''^''" «"d 
 those principles which they gad ^^^'"^^^^^^^^^ '^^^'^ 
 
 jealousy.ari there inapplLl e fo rI:"' nr''''''^''^''^'>' 
 denies this also ; and in Britaii! notH^.hTandSl w''^''' ^^^,' 
 office and acts, claims to be n^ereW li^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 -.''-and .ot content": be ^^t^^r--^-- 
 
 "" ^''I SiB 
 
TnEATMRNt—T.RGISUTrox. 
 
 •scrows an spiriu,,,, vv^^pons '_ w , h ^'^ ''"^''f ■'""' thumb, 
 lo^o h.r crown if not /.r h". "n I V"" '''^"■' ''^"' '""«' 
 
 «''-.trn)poral broH-afl, tl,o sn ,' " ' n ""' ""'■>' "'"^'^•i^ of 
 "•''.;c'\she would elai.u /..X " ^C'rV •'' "',? ^""""^' ^^ 
 
 open n.anly ono. h is t7, ' n f ' '''-"' "^« 'f-'S^ mercv than iho 
 '-" YV at- this moHK. Vi ^^•/:i;'-''7- ^'"'' 'nany .'ood 
 
 /o/fr«/zo„, (opranr it tn . i '' '"^f . " 'o "H others- or of 
 ^-e third. fo,',lJl :; ^''';;:f ;"•'"''•'' /p'--a.e.s none "[,0 
 
 ^vorl.i sen, hat thorp i'l'^'f'^''^' , ^^e would ha<. ,h, 
 can afll.rd to tolerate :„ ^Z and' f'^'^ ^"^'^^^ "•''•'' 
 P'-opose would in no wisn intoTf'.'e 1 h " ^^^''''?''^'" ^^'« ^^^' 
 oj rehfjioos liberty. \Vp In u . ^'' '''''''''^'' P'-'"^''P'ps of 
 ^'''^ nan, ,f freedom wo sh II notT 'l ^"''"'^ '''"' "^^^^'th 
 "ue to rnr/o,^, what at most wo "l m'^''T'"''^*'"' "ot" ^-'onti. 
 thoroforo two moa:,.uTs TL f ' '"^'"^ ""'^ ^"^^'^fe. And 
 ,^«-Iaturo:-that Ror^'e's '" 'OoVj.'''" ■' ''^ '"'"^-^ ^^^^e 
 the on/,i ones on our soil nvn. , r '!'''''°"-'' «''»" not be 
 
 '^-] i'-^i.e will bo LbweS to i ffW r^''''- "•^P^^"""" ' «nd 
 -K she shall at lea. sup^rl'^ts matXr h tif "^^ 
 
 «onTd' N;Yo'rnowrb^errt.n"R P'^'y".-^-^ s^^oet the 
 "■^'"f-Rome, that mtrA '^o?,hr"'/'''r "'"^'' '« i" a 
 ^iHch calls her most ^■U]ZnT J^ '""'^ ^^ nomenclature, 
 and her most infS V C' f "ttr/ "/''^f^-'y of O' 
 other serpents, grnerallv mo n ''^^ °^^^ • ^he is like 
 
 nations; throwf.he S in ^ ,"f cfr "n '" ''' ^^-^^«^ ^--'■ 
 "iquHous scenes, and hS^TLr7^V'^ "^""'^ ^^^^ '""^t 
 fairest titles. And oh I how exemnlir w '•'''.' ^"^^^ ^- - th« 
 
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 THE CURE. 
 
 have traced the young female thither, and found her leavIn.T 
 her happiness at the gate, and commencing a stru-rgje with 
 the laws of her being compared to which crucifixion were 
 mercy. We have seen that unless the laws of nature are a 
 delusion, that young creature must there stifle all the fond 
 iJirobbitigs of a woman's soul, commit suicide without the re- 
 lef of dymg, and bury herself alive without finding that rest 
 which the grave usually brinsrs to the weary. And this is 
 Rome's best oblation to heaven !— her most transcendental 
 type of piety !_to pluck the young heart out of the gentle 
 oosom, and attempt to replace it with a lump of marble— to 
 inflict upon its victim the feeling of wretchedness, from which 
 she can only escape by getting i id of all feeling ! We now 
 add, that It IS the nature of this gloomy prison-house to decoy 
 those young females whose hearts are least capable of such 
 petrifaction It is the artless girl of pious tendencies— the 
 child of romance and sentiment— whose glowintr youiicr fancy 
 throws a halo round everything, who is most easily ensnared 
 by visions of conventual bliss. And thus this dreadful old 
 sorceress not only drags the young female from life, just when 
 Us vernal flowers are all bursting around her • but selects for 
 the sacrifice the most precious victim, and makes her vpry 
 excellence and piety the means of her decoy ! Ah ! fancy 
 that girl's feelings when the spell at length breaks— when she 
 awakes, and behold it was a dream— when the mini<re, melts 
 away, and she finds a dreary desert whore she looked for 
 living waters ! Perhaps some simple Protestant replies, " But 
 1 hf.ve been to convents, and the nuns who slowed us through 
 them said they were all so.happy." And was there nothin.r 
 suspicious in the great pains they took to convince you o? 
 their felicity ? Then what mean those high walls and iron 
 gratings ? AnrI why does a church s) sagacious, needlessly 
 provoke suspicion, by giving such paradises the air of prisons « 
 Ah ! think you there is no occasion ? Then read the honest 
 narrative of one, who in England seemed fivorable to Pop-ry 
 but went to Rome and was effectually cured. The scenes 
 Mr. Seymour describes as being at this moment enacted in 
 Italian nunneries are absolutely heart-rending. One friend, 
 in particular, who knew several nuns, and was well ac' 
 quainted with "the secrets of their prison-house," assured 
 him that "broken-hearted looks, the shades of deep and in- 
 delible sorrow, the lines of settled and unalterable sadness, 
 the expression of resentment or despair that characterized 
 
 ,:^mft -■pji-i 
 
)und her leaving 
 a struggle with 
 crucifixion were 
 of nature are a 
 ifle all the fond 
 e wiihout the re- 
 findinjr that rest 
 y. And tiiis is 
 t transcendental 
 ut of the gentle 
 p of marble — to 
 loss, from which 
 ling! We now 
 1- house to decoy 
 capable of such 
 tendencies — the 
 ng young fancy 
 easily ensnared 
 lis dreadful old 
 n life, just when 
 : but selects for 
 nakes her very 
 yl Ah ! fancy 
 Jaks — .when she 
 le mirage melts 
 >«he looked for 
 It replies, " But 
 wed us through 
 s there nothing 
 3tivinc3 you of 
 walls and iron 
 ous, needlessly 
 ? air of prisons? 
 read the honest 
 'able to Popary, 
 • The scenes 
 ent enacted in 
 . One friend, 
 was well ac 
 3USP," assured 
 f deep and in- 
 ;rable sadness, 
 > characterized 
 
 TREATMENT — LEQISLATIOX. 
 
 173 
 
 rn";iM •'^''^ ^r''"."" c-eatures, used to affect his heart, sad- 
 den ail his best fcelmgs, and trouble his very dreams. He 
 
 but fhr.t . °' ''^"' M°^ "'" '"''•'''^^ ^^''"°^t such feelings, 
 but that the tears would come into his eyes, sayin.r, that i 
 was inconceivable the number of nuns that v;ent^o%, carll 
 grave under this system," He assured hi.rr that numbers if 
 hem, wlien the religious hectic which brought them thither 
 haa subsided, and they awoke to all the dreary .v^llties of 
 their Slate, "soon pined and saddened, and, sinkinr. into des- 
 
 Unv'n'^f^r''''^^-''^'''.'^"^^'''' '""^^ "''i« melancholy des- 
 tiny of the greater portion, and that nothing on earth could 
 induce him, with tl.e knowledge he possessed, to allow one of 
 his daughters to take the veil, for that the majority of nuns at 
 0/ '^/w"f '""'^"''' ^'-^'"•^ ^^^^y -^^re peind-iwenty ye^l 
 
 nn^iT I'""!i7f ^r^'^J' "' ^"'' "''" '""^' annually offered 
 on hMdieadful alfar, flowers that might have shed beauty 
 and fragrance on their entire circle, ruthlessly plucked in 
 their first vernal buddings, and consigned to those cells to 
 droop and perish ! In In-hmd alone there are a ^v7Jk.JI 
 THIRTEEN CONVENTS If Throughout the entire United Kinrr. 
 dom they are rising on every hand; and if Rome had her 
 will, these living sepulchres would cover the empire. And 
 for aught we can telUi,ose which already exist may be scenes 
 of feyful vice and ruffian violence. Maria Monk hl.s revealed 
 Uie abommntionsof the Montreal convent, and the Rev Mr 
 Slocum has proved the full truth of her disclosures. The 
 French soldiery found sixty-two young women corrupted and 
 Iwi '" ^'f "n"!"]^«"i« "f tl'^ Inquisitors of Spain ; 'and both 
 blench and hnglish discovered manifold proofs of yuilt on 
 the premises of Peninsular convents. When Mr. S:^ymour 
 was at Rome, an abbess rushed forth in a frenzy from one of 
 he nunnerirs of that city, and sought relief from remorse 
 beneath the waves of the Tiber. And what proof can you 
 have that those ciimes wnieh are rife in other convents have 
 no existence in ours— that their walls witness no vilhmy, and 
 liear no cries ..f outraged innocence ? Jf we suspect' them 
 wrongfully, the fnult is their own ; for if all is ri/ht.Zl 
 not all ope7i ? It is vice, not virtue, that hates the light, and 
 
 • Seymour's Pilor.imngo to Romp, p. 182. For a distressing account 
 of .he order of nuns called .he Sepulte vive. or •< the bun'd ajive," see 
 
 + Gatholio Directory, 18f-2. 
 
174 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 "O, but r,li„io„ must Of h! K ;'1'P^»'''^'''^« of evil." 
 tlmt heavenly an.^r, vL! T^'^'f ^'"' •'" Ki^'^i«,o.. ! 
 darkest deeX fc i h ,? """;">''^' "^'"« ^^^°'"« ^oes her 
 ^niilrieslact.s;bu7; : ,;;^^^^^^^^^ sl.e ahv.ys hides her 
 
 anytl'ins, because t'has no S, "''' 'Jf^'' ^^^ concealed 
 
 is used Is theX^ n ^";;s :r""' V '^^''"*"" • ^^''-'^ 
 
 ploa for preven.in,Mheirm.i' an I ' '' ^r'"'""" "''"^'' "'« 
 
 which they may b^ the ISS'tr^^wfeff fr "' 
 
 , a valid plea, which is in truth tho ,1 'L ^ ' ^^ '''''^" '^'^ 
 
 and shall Rome be nL ^ J ? '^ ^"''''''''^ "^'''« ^'-^^^ J 
 
 j--ier of female nno^ce ' an %;';?;"'^;''' "^"°'«" '"'« '-^ 
 
 vont-door to prevent iTent^r^r^^r ''"■ "^ ""^'''^ «°"- 
 woe? Then fellovn.:; • ? •'"""'^'°'" 'ho escape of 
 
 Queen.and pr.v t>;f r "''• "''?'''^""'' ^'^« ^«^' "^^ vour 
 dominions wiE M u ^^^T if ''' '" ^^^'"'''-^ ''> ''-' 
 shall be allowed to m' vl Mr, . '"'^'T"''- Ar.d if Rome 
 
 daughters, and bl^f '^j^ U f 'T"""' 'r''^'^'^ ^«"^ 
 
 siNy uined^:;^;:^S'h^;LZ?Lr :?^<:^'- '; -^ r 
 
 - leasf insist that ule'dS ^ 'bcT:;"^ ^'^ ''TV^ 
 who ore inured protected inri ... i ^d, and those 
 
 themselves"-' allowed t go free ^^ " , ''', ." f T« to 
 llie man-stealer throu.rh evp.u „ 'l^'"' ''*''"ch hunts 
 
 can touch, but Is ch.inrbm ?7^"'"'' ^''''' ^^" "° «'«^« 
 hroaks op;, the pnva'r Uvc i /'S'\'V."""''' /'''^--hich 
 ^vrong, punished he .Xoc^l Sin,. 'r"7 ^''' ^'""'"^ ^^ 
 n.aid-sorvant— and wU ,w ■'' ^"' "hjsin- his little 
 
 to .ho lo^v^r u-e"; ,r;'l /'Si:;;^i---' f "enlelty" even 
 moral monster, and refuse relieo I ""r'/'^^"'' ""'y to this 
 
 -^;t tbr Stoddart an.id tie s^mds .H rSlj'S '^ir^'r 
 ^or b ranelm amongst the icebenrs of tie ^ i' h K : • "'"'^ 
 asylum of the eartli's rcmot^'st ^vll ' ^'''tam, the 
 
 oupretoncesMals. asMi" r ''f'^r''^'' '"'''' ''^''^ 'oe, 
 and'in,pose on her or): ^^^ a:; Xl^f "1 ''"' '"^"''"'">^' 
 own fair dau^du.rs, on h .r , vvn f\i ? "' '"^''^''^^''''t^ her 
 esc.ape-and for n , o h r cr ' ,' •""'''"' " ^'''auce of 
 
' -'ill tliiiirrs, detests 
 pparunce of evil." 
 Willi!' Rkugio.v! 
 t'liB Uotne dots her 
 iilwiiys hides her 
 its fijlds the more 
 •iver yet concealed 
 •' Relijrioii ! which 
 iorsooth made the 
 "ling the crimr.'i of 
 ili that be taken as 
 eai'jreof the case ; 
 in religion into a 
 ler (It every con- 
 I or the escape of 
 the /bet of your 
 i permitted in' her 
 n- And if Rotno 
 ilies, kifinap your 
 ■•sses, there to ho 
 ue loo — to be tor- 
 ' sister," and pos- 
 Jaint" — to endure 
 'tended bliss, and 
 g their hearts; — 
 td, and those 
 ve "come to 
 ^111, ■vhich hunts 
 iii' soil no slave 
 iiid him — wliich 
 'r the victim of 
 husing his iiule 
 "cruelty" even 
 vor only to this 
 s young females 
 ^v'liose humanity 
 f, iiiul still seeks 
 th ; Britain, the 
 lior worst foe, 
 hor hospitality, 
 incarcerate her 
 'iJt a chance of 
 'less inuouencQ 
 
 TREATMENT— LESISLATION. 
 
 175 
 
 Th^ Cor.LEG2.— After all we have said of Irish priests th© 
 OFFsPK.,^G, we need not surely say much of Maynootl ' ha 
 
 character. L very effect has its adequate cause ; and to 
 
 . fvT; fr , ""■''" ''"'" ""^'"^ interested witnesses may tes- 
 «'fy,orofr,c.al Visitors see; while our reason rem:iins we must 
 jud^e of to tree by its FRUtrs, and if. on vlsiUng day^M 
 iooks lovely and charming within Maynooth Cofle^e.^l's 
 0,1 y another proof, not of Rotno's innocenc'e, but her^s^rpont 
 
 And why should we look for anything else ? Could we 
 llX'o? ^""r^T/^" '"'•'*^''^ of darkness^o be radia,^ wilh 
 
 p>.My .' (..uld th', father of this system take such pains to 
 •loiild the prop!e to his will, and be careless only about those 
 
 watchful of his pr.soners, be neglectful o„ly of his turnkeys? 
 No, as sure as Rome is Satan's maslerpiece, it is in the 
 iramtng of her priesthood yon would naturallv look for his 
 deepest strokes of policy, and see the art of 'blasting ous 
 practised m ,ts highr3st branches. Let us see how far these 
 oxpectta.ons have been realized in the present case. Imagine 
 to great adversary devising such a college as would best 
 suttlns dreadful purpose; and his aim would clearly be to 
 c.,n nve such an one a. would most thoroughly subjugate the 
 *nmds of the priests, and, at the same time, best fit tliem for 
 ^i .ugat.n, tho.0 of the people. It is clear that to ac^,m- 
 ! ush this difficult task he would give the former enough in. 
 s ructioii to raise th^^m.;«.^ so far above the latter as to enable 
 vheir, thorou^rbJy to enslave tlmm, but no fariher -ouou<rh to 
 'nake them fiery zealots, but not enouirh to li!.eraiiV.e"their 
 mincJs ; ,n a word, such an education as would qualifv them for 
 miscuef, but not such as would fit them f^.r usefnlne'ss. Now 
 you have onl V to Inuir this single <act in mind, in order to have 
 . e nost pe,-feec i<ey t^, the entire history, instruction, and 
 characlnr 01 Maynooth ColIe<re. 
 
 i'irst look to iis history, flome long sighed for such a col- 
 loge in 1 IV. and for trance being a much more enlidUened 
 o .untry, n, colleges ^ve,•e necessarily too good for her pur- 
 poses m Ireland ; hence those [rish pri.-sts who had been 
 ';'';U4ht lip m France returned home far too liberal and 
 uun'uened for her objects ! A domestic coU.-., therefore. 
 
176 
 
 THE CURB. 
 
 became indispensable ; and one onjoyinff the smiles of 
 
 Pit tha if ihp- J ?' ^'^- T'-«y and O'Reilly assured Mr. 
 
 they woild all J. '"?'""'^ '' ^' ^'^"''^^''^ '» P'^n^e, 
 
 iney would all return revolutionists; but if he endowed ,i 
 
 col ege for them at home, such a college would prevenTtheir 
 
 exposure to the political corruption of foreign g^rnllnTs 
 
 and such an endowment would ensure their^o/ahy toTef; 
 
 we?e memberlof ''"'■ "'^""""^ '' '"^^ "^^ '-- -f'- -" 
 whatever contribut'ed fo'mXtlf p;t ; dt^^der/fthei; 
 
 inem . jt was thus a plot and a counterplot : but priest craft 
 proved an overmatch for state-craft. For^^e ting thlt rIp'. 
 
 werrchL-n^'trLr"!' k'"^ -p-«?io-rth'.! hL'lr;: 
 
 dread ofTr^Jn ft ' ^' ''T''' ^«'' ^^' character, but 
 
 Tl I ^ ^'^^ ''"''^'' ' ^"^ ^''a' t^e way to emanci'.a'^ 
 
 teZ:Z"X" ""'r '^^ '"' '^ enlighfen r« "-'f r! 
 fhe S/ and tHn' ^"'^ T' Z-*?^ i'7"^^^'' "«« outwiued by 
 
 and if its davs ha e not iron ' W "'T 7'' ^' ^T' "^''^ 
 "pvll" TV" 'loi ooen "Jew, they have veriv heen 
 
 fuf Ld-^iT;:..?' ''"'•"' ^'!r'r^ ''^^'-^ -oret^rr^W 
 lu niiea— He .ssire your sm will fimf you out.'' With ihi'.. 
 
 " ' Double, double, toil antJ trouble/"* 
 
 Look next to its course of instrtjction, and you will fin,? 
 Satan pursuing with singular exactness the same nhn r 
 
 IndK .; °"'y'.°^^»"'«^' "" ■' "'ore refined and subtle scale" 
 .^nd that the entire system of Mayno<,th training is mamTestly* 
 
 •Rev. Mr. Godd.at EJinLurgh Anti-MnyBootb Meeting. 
 
TSEATMENT—tEOISLATION. 177 
 
 r W? 'h '''Tf* \^' ''"■"^' ^^•^^••«y th« con,c^ewce, shrivel 
 tJ.ucLnr'^" '^''r'''^' ""^"'•^' ""^ he,.ce ,0 send S 
 
 g s on den,o„strate the 47th proposition of Ih first book of 
 
 "^viting him to attend a controversial lecture :~" The Rev 
 Mi Harrington presents his compliments to the Rev D Folel' 
 and begs to return his circular. The Rev Mv iuiJ V' 
 
 holy Roman Catholic Church to celebrate the holy sacrifice 
 of the mass, and preach a moral discourse to his ChrTal 
 
 Quarter r„M. ?•■'''"' ^' ''">' '^^'"'"^ «°"^i"g ft'O'" tha 
 
 quarter.— Castletown, January 27th, 1849 ' '"+ 
 
 Look next to Maynooth's moral training. Its nrincinnl 
 
 Baill'v^Thrr ^'"^ tP°^*'°"^^ of vileness-Ddah'oguea'nj 
 i^ailly. The former, for instance, telling us under what ci, 
 
 churchr'flr^'"^ '''''''''' ^"^ "^^ luuerteachn.^ that the 
 church has full power to absolve from oaths ^' when^thetnor 
 
 vii^^^pt^p-H?^^^^^^^ ^""^"' ^•^- ^-h Education Report. 
 
 ^ t fconary Tour through South and west of Ireland : By the R.v. 
 
 8* 
 
178 
 
 THE CTTRl. 
 
 of Gad, ort/iesron:! qf iltc c/utrch num>res H '• .„ i I. ., .. w 
 
 e ' V wc!;Vto r'"nV" ''"'■'^''r"' ""'"'^ -dDeluho'u'and 
 prcpanu on twl r.? '^•'"'"" '!' ^•'"-' ""^ 4« hours in 
 
 is here taken whi,!. ^ ^ ^^ . '.'*"'^ ^^^^ """^ of celibacy 
 
 viar,,„f :She rus.7a ;rd*or4i ™'°"' "r f'^- 
 
 end ess repetition v,i,^t ^rZ? ! f ^" pages, and whose 
 utter disXt7devronVVi "'■'"' ''^'""^ \^yi>oou.y, if not 
 
 enforced: slttesr/wolret,!"^^^^ 
 
 the year, for. I, hours out? K? wirrr/ 
 
 t Ireland in 1846, p. 34. 
 
 t Tract on Muynooth by Eugene Francis O'Beirnt. 
 
' ■'>.'■ tl).i ili;U " the 
 gi'-> ill (III ctt&r.s- .'"* 
 (>* tlifJ i'iiliiuiilioiiul 
 wjuiisac- i)ljli;,'i(l to 
 loy (x)ul(l rt-sori to, 
 I wliicli is (iislioiicr. 
 liiious to society, in 
 litTwise in u Popish 
 Of of 1 ho profiissors. 
 It's ttmoDiT 4()U stu- 
 iiiilDeluhogui^and 
 SN, lUid 4« h(jurs in 
 tistar.t conipiuiions 
 le is coiiipc'llt;(l for 
 "lis are stroiiyest. 
 'il, that "sucii an 
 • Irive him into a 
 iuve hiiiistilf from 
 e down on a cold 
 ilution, and there 
 thug them on his 
 be kept from the 
 't Is it strange 
 Irish priest are so 
 ve such complete 
 
 30th on his heart. 
 
 being, to whom 
 t vow of celibacy 
 !t feelings of his 
 le soul. Every, 
 action to God and 
 witness the Bre- 
 pages, and whose 
 liypocrisy, if not 
 
 wliich is strictly 
 , during most of 
 tness the suspi- 
 
 212-236 ; BaiUy'a 
 
 TREATMINT— LBCMLlTIOIf. Ijg 
 
 cious surveillance which never allows fewer than three stu 
 dents togot er, that the th.rd may be a spy on the other two ; 
 at^d to evade which, one student often stands ii.side a door 
 
 plnnetf '"^""''' '" "'"'^'^ "^ ^'"^P'^'' '^'^^S^^ the 
 
 Observe, finally, the system of subjngalwn here pursued 
 Imphc.t obedience is the first commandment. The grand 
 maxun of the co ege is. that each student must - think as hig 
 supenor thmks." And to this great centre-point teaW 
 ^ownthe,,andtothemllofoUierl all is made to'converg? 
 Only thmk of such a system pursued for seven years of that 
 youthf^ul period when the mind is most plastic, wuh but he 
 annual interruption of six weeks' vacation ! And so cmstanl 
 .s us influence, that the students are seldom ailowrd ou sfde 
 the gates, save for a walk on Wednesdays, and even hen 
 
 s?,'ir r?''"'^^^ *^^"^^ ^''' '^^ ^^^'•^"1 P'-o^e^^ should be 
 suspended {ot an hour. 
 
 Now, if so much of this evil system is thus revealed to pub- 
 lic gaze, despite the profound secrecy which Romema//i, 
 observes, what might you expect to find if admitted to theT 
 
 7:\rTfl? '\ '^^^^r "> • ^"^^ considering thi act Tn 
 he light of the above details, can any sane man doubt ha" 
 the sanie plan by which Rome destroys the people, is here 
 pursued wuh more malignant subtlety f until, by the time the 
 victim IS made a pn«./, he has ceased to be a^,«a«, and by 
 this spiritual Medusa is turned into stone? You think tl^ 
 picture CO ored ? It must be the reverse. Unless Maynooth 
 i-s a very den of corruption, will you inform us how its prie r .. 
 are usually so bad ? or where they learn their wickedness ''2 
 How else can you explain that they so gmierally go in raw 
 youths and come out social fire-brands ? We care not what 
 annual reports of Maynooth may say : thev are its reports J 
 us living epistles ;" and if you would know awMre^what 
 
 Behold heir very countenance .'-what specimens commonly 
 of the "human face divine!" And if you pronounce he 
 scowl that sits on a villain's brow to be just thi mirror of his 
 rhnTiT P ,':''"^^'r^ (iaguerreotype of the thousand dark 
 houghts of his soul-say. is this " index of the mind" to be 
 lead backwards m the priest's case only? Is he the oiilv 
 exception to the laws of physiognomy ? And think you was 
 tie artless face ot the boy transformed into the "down look" 
 of the priest by nothing but seven years' converse with hia 
 
 i 
 
isa 
 
 THE cxnrK. 
 
 ,?^1T°V n '^^'P'*'°''' from Which infant innocence woold 
 Z nriT ^A^f ' 1'^*'"'^^ ^y "«"«'" ^""^ «ce"P« of heavenly 
 rapture? And what sliall we call it ?-creduhty ? fatuity? 
 or that sheer depravity which has so strong an affinity for 
 whatever is depraved ? which to this hour defends or palliates 
 the monstrous sin of the world's most Protestant nation endow- 
 nfnZf. V°"'^" ^ ^"^ '^"' ^^^" ignorance of Rome's 
 l^'Tl ° .. r '^"' f«" "° ^°"ge'- be pleaded,-when, from its 
 Itonnh "^"■''''"'' ♦''« *=«"PooJ of Popery is now sending up its 
 stench over Europe,-when, by our Jate premier's own con- 
 oanr',^ r^' of darkness, led on by R^e. are now pre- 
 paring to close m around Protestant England! This, too 
 when not only have the blessings Maynoolh was to yield us 
 not been realized, but we have had instead unmitigated curse, 
 
 i^lv h?' "I •! i!'-^ °^ '■^^""^ '^°^^^' «' ^«« promised us, it has 
 only been hatrhing cockatrices,-and when even the cowardly 
 
 IvTfL ■ '^^ P''^'*' ''''" "° ^^"g^'* be "'•ged, since they 
 
 hUT ^iT!"^, ""^''^ powerless, and will in a few yeari 
 iiave completely lost their sting ! ^ 
 
 amo.?;/!,r^;^"°°'^u-'"u'"^'^'.''''^''^ ^y ^^^ nat'*on-it enjoys an 
 ThTf ''°' ""^'"'^ ''.^^""''^ °"^ ^e^y best universities. 
 isHnf^inn"^^ ''" extensive pile of building, enclosed in a 
 com„?mn "''r', '^"'^ ^'''^""'' ^«^'^«' ''"d play-grounds: 
 containing numberless apartments for professors and students 
 
 two deanf ir''?''"^n^ a president, vice-president, bursar 
 not to .^fn;.- T' • ' ^^""boyne prefect, and ten professors 
 not to mention a tram of servants, including a butcher, baker 
 and brewer-and all maintained at the public cost ! And 
 here you find 500 students, generally of 'the lowest class • 
 uZ ^^;" '^°''^"!r\«^«banged for a black suit, with ?ong 
 wi*«"' U-' '"^ \bemselves, from having in their humblf 
 «rr r*'-u''^^'?>"^" °" ^ l'"J« oatmeal," now amply 
 supplied with smoking joints and potations of a e. and re^eW^ 
 ing besides £20 a-year of pocket money// Why, if the 
 strength and glory of the British empire were bound up in 
 
 \nT f^rZ'^ '^^y ^"'■^ *^^«*'"^^ »° be her shield and s^ay 
 instead cf her tormentors, they could not be the objects of more 
 bountiful regard. And while these embryo pests of societ^are 
 thus dandled on the lap of royal favor, how many of itsZ«r^ 
 ornaments are left to ply the trowel o; the shuttle one YaTf of 
 der r c^r °il'i: ?° «"PPo/t themselves at college the remain- 
 der. Can the history of folly present anything like this? 
 
TREATMENT— IBOISLATIOIf. 
 
 181 
 
 lation supporting Popery; and 
 opery ; and in tlie very worst 
 
 The world's most Protestant 
 
 wilh £30,000 a vcar l' A v ,„ I ' '"f'"°"'""j' ra-*""""*' !< 
 
 f^" whic^ aooor;T^Vou;'ot'rort,,!tt,r;:rr; 
 
 ' ^«< <Aey arfi ;,oor, and need a collese " Thtv wK " 
 and havf^'o^St ouTlv" ; ''" ^^'^^/nX^^ums for mifchief 
 
 DealJr A r'"^^"'' ?, ''^^"^^"d better acts have been re 
 
IW 
 
 THE fURR. 
 
 portioned ajrainst it ; so that if v.-. ,r th.,r« was an net which 
 tho very juHt.co they talk of r.<,ui e,J .o b. rcpeaic-i, t in is 
 oi^mng oi our vioLAXKu con.ti. ar,o.. ! But wh^t il Z 
 ciy >vliiuh coiD.s from u very (Jiii. r.-ut (luurter i " Bu with. 
 d>-uwn,gt us grunt," say some of our l^L.tunls, '^ you' Z 
 dui^er a I endowments." Well, u ul suppose it were so. have 
 you really, ,„ the duzzlo of your . ndo^vnu-nt, lost si.d.t of the 
 honor of your God / Uut we assert it is just the\everse! 
 ihe greatest danger to an endow mmt that is nukt in principle 
 « to place alongside of it o..e that .s wrong. And so as no! 
 I;e iviuynooth grant given the Voiuntary^his be t a '«',"? 
 Only let all en.iow.nents be rigiucvs, and the stronte t p la 
 apms them would cease ; but it i ; this M.cri,ninai7. .u^^on 
 o t.u h and error that has furrds ,ed the strongest hand , to 
 the adversary. Therelbro, let P:-oteslan:s betvare ! "The 
 
 l!v e^of r^"l I" *''"' "'■-'^'I'^'y'" "»J «»'0"ld «"y such n>o. 
 tiv s of (/od-d,shononngselhshne.s weaken thei, opposition 
 to tins grant, then- wisdom may prove their folly, and their sm 
 provoke the Most High to send the evil it was designed io 
 
 aet^r!" '^n"' ""i-'l "*"'' '"'"^'''' '^^ ''^P^"> ^^ thi« suicidal 
 
 intolerance and ' persecution." Intolerance, forsooth ! 
 So. then not to help is ro hinder, not to pension is to persei 
 cute ! You detect a man foully abusing your hospi ulitv 
 and, whie eating your bread, forming a dUn a^aiim you^; 
 hie ; and instead of sending him to prison, you merely tell 
 hnn he must no longer sit at your table-and that is persecu- 
 a tonVr. I'l ' '••«'". t^o'"«-^vho, whUe demanding tolc. 
 lation fiom all men, denies it to all men,~will not tolerate a 
 Protestant chapel within tho gates of her capital,_late y re! 
 fused a Protectant stranger a grave to burv his wife in,iand 
 IS even now banishing those of her subjects who would .lare 
 read the Bible to the pesulont swamps of Marcmma ! Ay 
 and some of our Protectants are found to echo the cry, atfcl 
 prove their fitness for the olHce of « guardians of tolerau'on,'' 
 by the strangest partialities for its deadliest fbe ! If we sent 
 Wiseman back to the Flaminian (late, and required that till 
 
 shloiri'". T'^ r*"' """"^'''■" li-"". not a Popish one 
 should stand in London ; and tlua till the Bible were free in 
 tuly, the Breviary should be ba.usiied f^om l::nuiand ;_it; 
 in short, we demanded measure fbr measure, would Rome 
 even then have any riirht to complain ? VVe must, then, 
 
lice, fbrsootli ! 
 
 TREATMENT— LBorSLATTOIf. 
 
 plainly 
 
 «lie liiis ,ro,| cuusL- to bJ't'liuhkfu] 
 
 189 
 
 :?'; 'rr:;:'',,,!"' ''",';""»'"»' "'-"-». .— .im. 
 
 tliui mIiou) I )ur ml 
 
 we now u.s|< so liulu , and 
 
 CI 
 til 
 
 '■i-s coiiiiiiuf to trillf Willi tlic I 
 
 "•''siiuii nulion, it is not will, the liu.nU 
 •7 wi 1 In; suti.slird. N 
 
 ereus(,s I nation's dfiiiands, will tl 
 
 o; us sure as di-laved 
 
 fcliiiysi of a 
 [i; measure of dtdl-iico 
 
 I'lywl jusiicf ill. 
 
 leKisIalion. M 
 
 ;. o uLu,,i,Kis, win tnf.y require in(,i ■ sm 
 en are beginning already to ask svluM 
 
 !>' 
 
 IlL' 
 
 glorious cause have you woru oZ Lu a i "'"">' "^ 
 Wislature ' Wn^Lt,) ,t "'e land and lost in the 
 
 endowinpm ? vl . ^^""''^^ """' ^'""^ ^^''y M'»ynooth 
 
 Stale, as well as in .tl P? "^T ■ ''"""'^ '° "''^"^ <■''«' '« l''e 
 wpI „ f ' '? ^^'"'■c''. in our capacity of ci/rens n<, 
 
 over us nor th« />.// r . ? allowing such men to rule 
 .nd S. fv" t by Zc Zlifir;' "'l""" '""'^''^ ' 
 
^»HfiWtilrL 
 
 » i 
 
 184 
 
 THE CURS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE TREATMENT — EVANGELIZATION. 
 
 Here is the grand HorE of Ireland ! It is little ailer all 
 which Parliament or even the public can do. They can at 
 the best, but facilitate somewjmt the flow of the tides of salva- 
 tion in our land, as the wind sometimes increases the tides of 
 our harbors ; but in both cases the grand influence must come 
 from above. Po|.ery, like its father the devil, can only be 
 foiled by "the sword of the Spirit," and destroyed by the 
 breat.i of God s mouth, and the brightness of his cominjr." 
 ^ut, as has been truly said, Ireland has never yet had its 
 Reformation. U history can be relied on, never was country 
 more neglected by clergymen and laymen. Many a parish 
 IS still strewn wuh the ^wrecks of ministerial unfaithfulness ; 
 and when " God maketh inquisition lor blood," dread will be 
 the reckoning of many a hireling pastor and godless Protes. 
 tant ! Oh ! how many a minister has given too much ground 
 for the charge of only caring for the fleece ! How many a 
 layman has been more sinful, with less excuse than Rome's 
 worst votaries And how often have both exhibited religion, 
 not in Its own lovely aspect, but the grim features of bigotry 
 or the marble coldness of death! True, the priests have 
 poisoned our countrymen, but we have starved them—they 
 have "shamefully handled" them, but we have « passed 
 them by on the other side." Yet you wonder the Irish still 
 remain unevangelized ! But, blessed be God, a better day 
 has dawned, and now almost every denomination has begun 
 to do something for Ireland. 
 
 The Instruments.— For the reader's information, we shall 
 notice the principal organizations. 1*/, The Independent 
 Jiody, conriposed of the members of the Congregational Union 
 and the Irish Evangelical Society, and consisting of 24 min- 
 isters and missionaries, actively employed in various parts of 
 the country. Jid, Lady Huntingdon's Connection, employinj? 
 a number of Scripture readers, under the direction of minis, 
 ters of various denominations. 3d, The Ladies' Hibernian 
 I'emale School Society, which annually expends about £2000 
 
 !.",/^^r^*r^'-To'"''^ S^"*"*""' '"struction of female children. 
 4W, I he Insh Society, for instructing the native Irish through 
 
THE T3EATMENT--EVANGELIZATION. 185 
 
 the medium of their own-longue, established in the vear 182fi 
 supported by members of .ho Chmch of En. and am at nre' 
 sem employing 59 readers and 719 teaclfers 5,A m 
 Scnpture Headers' Soaety, established in 822 and at vi 
 
 pSr 1 7'' .^^^^"*f ^^^««d Society, connected with the 
 Established Church, which employs about 25 reade s and 
 teachers on the islands and coasis, and has brought the ^os 
 pel within the reach of about 13,000 <<ouls tT rL i ? 
 ^^^fSocp/or Ireland, whifh^'sintlts JstabSmt"tt 
 H S^^rno^r'"'"'^]''^, f ^'^'^^ copies of the Scriptures wih 
 TI.1:^H ^ m"'' "• ^ 1'400>935 Scripture readinj-boohs, &c 
 
 whir?' •. ''^'"■'- ®'^'' ' ^'l^ernian Bible Society 
 
 Bible ' T.?. ' ^r"^'^''"^"' '" ^SOO' ''"« ^•^^^"^d 1,9W.?7 
 Bib es, Testaments, and poriions. 9//^ TAe 7?./^/oL fr^cf 
 
 fo2 /'\^''^T^' ^''""^J^. «ince 1819, has ifsued near 
 10,000 books and tracts, and established 1,162 denositodel 
 and lending libraries. lOM, T/,e Prm//u; TF.7rrCW 
 
 through almost every part of 'the countiy, and found hem 
 penetrating its wildest regions, and holdin^^ up the lamjTf 
 tiuth n ats darkest corners, regardless alike of persSion 
 and privation. 12/A, The Irish Baptist Society,KonTaTvl 
 nt present 21 ministers and missionaries, who^;re act ve? 
 laboring ,n various parts of the country. 13M, The Church 
 Education Society for Ireland, which, in 1851, had iJsl 
 schools, and 108,450 scholars on the roll, with an avera^; at 
 ^ndance of 64 647 14^^, The Home Mission iP he Iti 
 SfsrTr "r^- Il;'« ^'!»''^h at present consists o7 5 
 synods, 3t> presbyteries, 522 ministers, 483 conffrerrations and 
 mission stations, and about 750,000 souls. Within the S 
 16 years, it has planted about 160 new churches in destitute 
 
 nn^ l" , t •'°""' ''"'' '''^''' 5 supported 300 to 400 Irish 
 and English mission schools, in which upwards of 20 00 
 
 and circulated large r.umber. of Bibles and tracts in Popish 
 
180 
 
 THiJ CPRE. 
 
 S^inTIS::;/::;. K''"^<fi ''^^''''"^-^ P-,bvtorian 
 of Seceders. ' ^" °'' *^ ^'^^^'y^i^f'^'cl by the name 
 
 ' tho.0 serve ^s sa, Is of ^I P'"*t ? '^ ^^^'''^"^'' '"'^ '^' 
 of the principal ^ cies of o ^ M °f "!^,?'^'=^i»der. One 
 Societu. H.'foro .ho rl "^^/f :«''''«'"^'! Church is t/m Irish 
 
 bo «.oi;.,,ooo^nw:;.^ r;:;.:; i^,:?;,:'s?"-^"^^°^^^ ^^ 
 
 trv An/l .k; • f '-"'^"'.i, i^o'i'iii t^athohcs m tip fniin 
 
 extended i^ ope ,ttn S'l '"'^ ^'''"''^^'' ''^"^^"^.^'^' '"^« 
 and beon bilss^ irm u . " "'""^I''''-'^ "f the country, 
 
 of this a.roncv nriv .n i,.^ T' ?*' ''""'^'^ "'« in«'i<^nce 
 
 «on.. vo:;,"' .:^';^j"i:^:!f .^' '^>^ ;'- ^!"--"ji: --dote. 
 
 people baokX a m'.'^'^Buth'wTn^^t'f :t '"'i^ ^^^^ "^« 
 made a rush to the door ..,.}" °^"^«'«d in force, they 
 
 do^vn, but ca ried bofo e 1 1 f'f ^V""'"'^ "«' °"'^ '^"--"^ 
 
 dies had just been 1 i?^ ^d 3 n ' 'r" .^""'''■"' ' '^'^« ««"" 
 sumedthetaskofnor I L one of the priests coolly re- 
 
 observed ^ l^^ T^:^^t :^I^?t Jr'^^ ^'"^ 
 
 tbe glad Udii;!; :":,, Sf ' '" 1P'^« «f ;he priest, to !.««; 
 
 ^ur one instance of th^sSiv's .,?/'" '"'/ ""^' '^"'^ «P^^«« 
 i",!,' pRrseoutors of its tn-K-hn^ . r '''"'• Amongst the lead- 
 
 i'-fla-nmatory l^xran-^/e hav "^^1! r^d'?'^ ^'''''\ "''^ 
 
 on., or two agents, hi was olj&d "^ lovl " '^ '^V,'^'" "^ 
 
 VI uo-e : and tl. pro h^ „ •■" 'eniove to a newWibor n^r 
 
 'a'f ""«' mere no comniennpr tr\ cd..!,, *i ci • " 'n 
 
 -tter to fit hin,self fbr theSl ^f ofr,e t/''^^"'"'!' ^'"^ 
 of God arrested the persocutor ho 1 , , •'"' ^"'^d'less 
 
 the errors of Pon.rv ind h ^'r '"^?.'''^«d hunself out of 
 
 the n.ost devoted' sof;j;";'o' God"'''"' ''°*^' '*^^'^'"^ °"« °^ 
 Mayo; both connScd';i^?ti:'Sl^^£f-l--- 72 
 
 rtwniuiiung«»M 
 
THB TREATMENT—EVANdELIZATIOW. 187 
 
 no j. ysbian ,o apply ,„, 5,, GubbiL 6 1™ ph ::„';;;:;= 
 
 arrived n tlie distrint • ti.« r ii • UlniJes Uiyor 
 
 om ie Zh"h° '" ".'""■™i;"'"«- •■"ooivoJsuoh imp,- "ions 
 Horn he ruth ho hear<l, as ullimately led to his oonv-sion 
 
 .em T, u ' ^r '"^r''"''^ ""^ •^^^•■^'" «^ «'^"'l'"niJ amon^..^ 
 
 nee ±1!^ °"- '• t''''*^" P'^" ' ^^"'J' ^^'^'' ">«>'^" cou. 
 Ji aH ?f- ' ""'!^ proprietor of the i.lu„d, and the co - 
 ; '. UU .f nmn.rous Chnstian friends, I.e soon after founded 
 
 it for 2 r ? "'"''''' °^ P""'*-'^^ ''■-^^^ '^-^e" erected upon 
 
'.Il 
 
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 188 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 ifa°c«:f £,',M;j,r f^'^'T^^y ">» friend, of , he colony, 
 
 ..un,sr„ s :^d$?oi-po;;v .^'"' "'■^"'- -"- "^^ '- 
 
 i ne Home Missioii of the Irish PresbvtPrinn Phnro^. \. 
 
 ISC. I tie Uirr mission is an examnip nV th^ <v...^ vuuiau. 
 commenced in Tftdn • o.,.i *'-^"7P'® °! '"^ lormer. It was 
 
 »ound„.,sofihl^I^«Li 1™« »"lo"aine<l do,, bis of the 
 was brought nto„\?Tl' Tl "•.""' ""»' '•^'."..cl.tion of it 
 
 study theSrripturrk^oui^^^^^ '" r ^f "''' ^^■^'«" '^ 
 
 which to obtaiS ! ' M^the founTth^I-',^'""^i ^''"'""'^ 
 
 /er were terms to signiy he same office t1 ^r "^ ^'"'^^^J 
 them to <?pn-nh ♦!,« .1- • "",'"^"'f' omce. 1 Ins discovery ed 
 
 mxt to'i; oloLd-„„d''the'"r'"'''T;'"' "™f''-i™-' came 
 Thus di,l ih™ ,, "'°'' Itself was finally oboli.hed 
 
 of t del ,?nVji:p:;y' %zt( "-v^" !>• ^'^p'-' 
 
 guide, until its las. eSu :" v« 2/ C ,?.r' °"'" 
 
 In 1839, Wil Z C Z i htt.^"" '"•'""" •'""■■"'■>■• 
 Presbyterian Church Ln hi V ,f °"?'-'^?^"«"' J^'"'^^ "'« 
 of Dublin undertook ihJ c '^^ ^o' o^vmg year, Dr. Carh'sle 
 i^uuiin, undertook the superintendence of the " iJj>r Jl/j, 
 
 i:«»«i»«i^^,.. 
 
s of the colony, 
 
 in future have 
 
 3J1 for ages has 
 
 m Church has 
 'ely devoted to 
 the other aims 
 copulation gen- 
 nnission to Ro- 
 les, one to the 
 aking Roman- 
 rmer. It wns 
 to the sinjTuIar 
 holies having, 
 Hion with the 
 
 I" or Parsons- 
 ioubts of the 
 inciation of it 
 ances : — The 
 •formed, must 
 Jt the Messrs. 
 san, in order 
 oil, began to 
 tnnel through 
 » and presby. 
 discovery led 
 1 eagerness ; 
 on got rid of 
 allowed — the 
 vsioncl came 
 ly aboli>hed. 
 by step, out 
 th their only 
 t being un- 
 Y themselves 
 new seces- 
 ch they set 
 lundred fol- 
 fne journey, 
 joined the 
 Dr. Carlisle 
 * Birr Mis. 
 
 THE TREArMENT—EVANOELIZATION. If 9 
 
 *wn." It now consists of a congregation of converts with m 
 average Sabbath attendance of al.out 70 individuaLflou s" 
 ng Saboath schools of about 127 children, with :J6 scho 
 r isi ed bv L"r'°t- ^''^ll' ''' lioman Catholic familh 
 labcr tha Dr V.n"''' «"J ^^^ Promising is this field of 
 solnwr. ,\«"'^««' a young Scotch physician, has f,r 
 boH.ood '" """^ "' "'''^'''^ missionary in the neigh- 
 
 Rom 'm rl'Ihr^ agencies of our mission to the Irish-speaking 
 Koman Catholics, are the Irish missionary, the Irish Scrio 
 tare reader, and the Irish school. The lafter cons sts not of 
 chddren assembled in a school-house durin.. cer aS fix °d 
 
 aiier tlie toils of the day. And you mi.^ht see ifese IImIp 
 groups of mountain peasants during the long wintenlS 
 around the.r blazing bogwood fires°readincr in "their own 
 leTed Vr^iirot:'""' ^f'\ °^ «^^' ^" ^ ^''«"e"r proo^of^t^^ 
 what is found ?ntrni'''°°'' " '" '"Possible to furnish, thm 
 the?e dwTl """""'."^ *""^^°^'^- About 14 years a,c-o, 
 
 Tvrl« R ^ ^°""° f ^'°"' Romanist 0.1 the mountains of 
 
 sTonsTi'ththnfishr^ °''f."''> ^'^^ ^-q"«»' d'"-- 
 sions with the Irish teachers of the district : and that he mioht 
 
 be thoroughly furnished for the controver'sy, he commenced 
 
 oubeJ/tf "?•■''• 7-'"' ""^'•^ ^' «^"d-d' the mo e e 
 spend h^nrsir .•"'"■' ^is mental struggles, that he would 
 f.fthpr'« h • ^ "T °" '^^ '°"'^''y "loiintains behind his 
 
 father s house, m such agony of thought and prayer that the 
 cold sweat would break on his temples! At len.^he resolved 
 g go to Stewartstown to hear the Rev. Robert^Allen p each 
 
 sav come'" t' °'Tr, Tj : ^"^ "'« «P'"' and th^e tide 
 say come, &c., and little did he dream the results that were 
 
 M S' "^ r '^'T"- "« ^'^'^ the bow at a ven uJe-the 
 Most High directed the arrow-and the youn<x man left he 
 
 And .h.fvn.?n "" ''^■''' ^^"""'"^' ^"^ ^' '^"^''h ordained, 
 one nr.t young Peasait IS now the Rev. Michael Branni^an, 
 one of the most honored instruments in the great missionarv 
 
 aTd'of :T- f P'^^^'" ^°'"^ °" '" '^' province of (SnlulhT 
 and which we now proceed to give a brief account. " ' 
 
 Irish R '?T°'' °^ ! f '"^^ ^''""■"«' o"-* church's mission to 
 
 tTadifvTuTrwT''' ' t '" '^.^ '''''' institutions, progressing 
 
 steadily but slowly, and experiencing the pecuUar difficulties 
 
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190 
 
 THE CTTRK. 
 
 of tins fifld of labour. But while that flnirfjl cnlnnity wns 
 swt.ppiiig thousunds to the iiravo, a mo.st romarK-iiIj!,, char,.re 
 bigun to tuko place in the minds and eonduet of m^.i v of ihe 
 people ; mainly owinjr, under God, to the softenin^r infhience 
 of amiciion on their hearts, and the kindness shown them bv 
 I rotestants durinjr their trials. Not only were our inissiona'. 
 ru's admitted to the cabins of tfiose who before woijld have 
 shut their doors against them, but so anxious for instruction 
 had they apparently become, that wherever a new tcliool or 
 preaching station was opened, it was crowded by ycuncT and 
 old. 'J'he result has been, that, for the last six y >ars, the 
 mission has flourished so wonderfully, that, in the district of 
 Alayo alone, embracing the extent of 50 square mil 's, many 
 thousands of young and old have been gladly receiving the 
 Word; and, by the united testimony of all our mistionari. s, 
 the glorious work seems to be capable of an almost :ndcfinite 
 extension. While almost all our mission districts have been 
 favored as the scenes of more or less awakening, th-ee have 
 attracted peculiar attention. The first and largest is in Mayo 
 and Sligo, tl;e second in Roscommon, and the third in Kerry 
 in the province of Monster. And nothing can be more inter' 
 esting to the friends of Ireland than a brief sketch o' the plan 
 of operation adopted in these districts. The old n-issionary 
 system pursued in Ireland has long been felt to be beset with 
 difficulties. It has been found that the minds of he adult 
 population are so stereotyped in ignorance and vice, hat little 
 can be done to expand or elevate them; that, besides they 
 are usually so poor as to need relief, and that this ofti n tempts 
 them to hypocrisy, and exposes us to the charge of bribery * 
 that the priests, by hindering our converts fron gettin<^ 
 employment, have often forced them to apostatize er to emi^- 
 grate, and thus have sometimes scattered to the v inds our 
 fairest missionary fruits ; and, moreover, that tl e people 
 are usually so degraded as not to see the advan at^e of a 
 mere luerary education, and so bigoted as to be hojtde to a 
 Scriptural one. It was therefore conceived, that .-ur chief 
 attention should be turned to the young, while yet their minds 
 were soft and plastic ; especially yomg females, on whom, as 
 the future mothers of the race, its destinies, under God so 
 much depended ; and that if to the literary and ficriptural 
 element, were added such industrial trainivg as woi Id enable 
 them to earn Iheir own bread, we could multiply our schools 
 to any extent amongst that starving people, and not only defy 
 
 I 
 
established. About one 2^/' J '"/"'' ^'^'"^ y'-"''' f^"" 
 
 remainder are supported bv Ln^ p^^^^^^^^ "^ '^.^''V' «"^ '''^ 
 
 various donomina, ons , nouXn TL n • ^'"^'/'^''viduals of 
 
 -porintendedbyti.eRe;To'^.^;^^^^^^^ ^j^^o,., and 
 
 Ballinu, Rev. William Chesnnf T J ' ^'"'''''^''o"?. 
 
 "^-^ul 5,000 scbol i, all sCe"nf ^r'^' 'f '^^ ^°"f"i« 
 in furminj, operations, ie- bu ,h. ''''"" "''? ^">'« ^"^''^g^d 
 employed- in knittr,. neuini er^'l^'T' """r'^ "^ ^'i'-'^' 
 And it is the unanimou erti' nv ' ' '''''^ "'n^Jin, d^c. 
 England and Scotiand wh; .vl^ • "l''^''''""' ''•'^'"^« f''om 
 
 UN.Tr.va the advan, JeVo 'T J . ''''''r''^^ "''^"'«' '^"d. 
 *Fn7«a/schemes,whf4%v.havelrr"^' '"'^"*"''«^ «"d 
 ter. Indeed, the Wansformation U^ey W ll T"'""^ ^''■''^■ 
 these creatures is almost incr dfble ar d af^r?"^'^'' °" 
 necessary to renovate the whole countrv'in in ^^^^ ""'''"« 
 
 ^tsnsmg generation under theiMnfl.ence ^^?r'''^\°^""g 
 who, sometime ago, were in ra<rV wf lf?k -^ r^'''''^ children 
 len from hunger,^ nd their eS ^ V^''^'" f^^^^^o^^n swol- 
 
 that of savagS, ar. nofe^n g" er'/"o"oo f '^"^ '^- 
 of thfm receive 4s. and 5s a wnl ' ^■y^'a'' ! Some 
 
 port of their parentfand bX,J nnTDTvf^ "t ^P" 
 report of the Belfe.st Ladies' schools in Pn ^'^^'"^ ' '"«^ 
 
 '/Woman's Work and Woman's Wonh'''"^^'' !;"'''^'^^' 
 instances of the beneficial result of 1 ystem T^' ^''']. 
 the Kerry schools, superiMended hi ,h "^ u ,'" °"^ "^ 
 girls are at present eaSg mo^ t fan ti.eir f^V'"•'^''■•''« 
 brothers, though these are b, ^nn!t . ^''^''^'' «"d two 
 
 cleanliness, diligence, and ^^"f "^'.'"P'^yment ; and the 
 scholars, is truly gra ifvTnt tf behn m'^'^'r"''"^'"' '^ '^e 
 would seethe MllffZloftLl) ' n""' '' '''" ''^^der 
 pay a visit to Ballin'len coun V M.vo '' J' T'^'^' ^'' ^im 
 intendence of Mr. Allen and Mr R ' ' ^^^^ "'^ ^'^'^ ^"P^'-- 
 AJien and Mr. Brannigan. On one side of 
 
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 193 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 the romantic glen he will see a large model farm, supported 
 by kind friends in Scotland, on which boys, who were lately 
 runninjr wild through the mountains, are now receiving the 
 best Scriptural, literary, and agricultural education ; on the 
 other side stands a female industrial school, in which girls who, 
 some time ago, were in a state of wretchedness scarce con- 
 ceivable, are producing the most elegant specimens of embroi- 
 dery, ^ic. ; in the centre stands a neat new church, weekly 
 filled by a congregation, who, six years since, were degraded 
 Papists, and had never seen a Bible; the entire district, 
 which was then a scene of utter misery, has undergone the 
 most marvellous transformation j and we are rejoiced to add, 
 that m(!ans are now being taken to purchase the whole glen 
 and found therein an extensive Model Industrial Institute for 
 the province.* 
 
 The Requisites — Such, then, is Irelands's evangelistic 
 machinery — suilicient, you would say, for even her conver- 
 sion. Then what can be the cause that perhaps in no coun- 
 try has the work of grace until recently got on more slowly ? 
 We have already given the principal cause. We have had 
 the machinery, but have been deficient in the moving power. 
 And we are firmly persuaded that all that is at present neces- 
 sary to pentecostal success is simply pentecostal devotednesa. 
 The order of heaven is, " I will bless thee, and make thee a 
 blessing." It is only those that have freely received, who 
 can frt ely give ; and God has usually honored men accord- 
 ing, not to their gifts, but their graces. But if ever there was 
 a work which pre-eminently required the spirit of Christ on 
 the part both of churches and ministers, it is ours. Perhaps 
 there is not beneath the sun a field of labour in which one is 
 more forcibly taught the utter impotence of human effort, and 
 the special need of divine aid. 'Tis here we are made to 
 feel the whole force of the sublime but humbling sentiment, 
 " Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the 
 Lord," and persuaded we are that every requisite necessary 
 to secure triumphant success even in it is more deep-toned 
 APOSTOLIC PIETY. What we chiefly want is that unquencha- 
 
 • There is a deeply interesting and successful mission in County Gal- 
 way, c. nducted by Rev. Mr. Dallas, aud other ministers of the Estab- 
 lished Church ; but as its plan differs in noihini? from the other missions 
 proseciited by thai church, our brief space hinders us from givine a 
 detailed account of its operations. 
 
 f 
 
I farm, supported 
 who were lately 
 )w receiving the 
 iucation ; on the 
 which girls who, 
 ness scarce con- 
 imens of embroi- 
 ' church, weekly 
 e, were degraded 
 entire district, 
 as undergone the 
 ) rejoiced to add, 
 3 the whole glen 
 trial Institute for 
 
 ds's evangelistic 
 jven her conver- 
 baps in no coun- 
 Dn more slowly ? 
 We have had 
 e moving power, 
 at present neces- 
 stal devotednesa. 
 and make thee a 
 5^ received, who 
 red men accord, 
 if ever there was 
 irit of Christ on 
 ours. Perhaps 
 in which one is 
 luman effort, and 
 we are made to 
 ibling sentiment, 
 Spirit saith the 
 [uisite necessary 
 
 10 RE DEEP-TONED 
 
 that unquencha. 
 
 ion in CounlyGal- 
 
 sters of the Estab- 
 
 the other missions 
 
 I us from giving a 
 
 i 
 
 ■1 
 
 i 
 
 'HIE TnEATMENT-EVANGELIZATlON. I93 
 
 nnd constrain our ablest minis 1 • '""J^' ^'^'^ "« '«^«/ 
 
 "•«hest places in the c „^e tSvrtT''"' °^"^^P''-'""g '0 the 
 lot, and say, « Here an 'send n>o^'l'''^?;*'^'°'''^';>; '''« ''^rd 
 ^.a«.-_then would our people inToad J^\''.''^^^t ^''"^ "» 
 n^uch, give much from a7 ^ ' ,t "^ of g,y,ng a linle from 
 
 selfishness be cut off but f.wr"". "'°"'^' '^'°'^ ^'^''^"^ of 
 -nms. and the poorest cul • nVn '''1 ''"'^ "°"^^ S^ve vast 
 '^0 hoard fron) our ttts re ' ' r.rT''''r^r^>^' '''^" ^^ould 
 M0SC..S' ,.ar, •' The nco! . ;•. ""r'« "'"^'^ once gladdened 
 "'^ service of tllo '3 .T'''V,j'l''^'' '"ore than c4w.h for 
 
 :vl.ich wouhi comluo nl^ "■^'"nt i>ra!,cr fbr onr mi^sion.s, 
 "n-s.sionun...s olt.n f J ho .k *r , •'"' •P;""''"">' '''^^'« ^ve 
 
 vo"'"u'^^i<t .-.nd tL^dc,v^ll;; I '''■?,''''' "'-^ ^^'^^^^ '^^^-'^ of 
 
 H'- c^oun.seland int '■ L *' ''' f V''''3'' ^'^"t out^from 
 «Wigod ,0 fuc, sinTiZ 1 ;;' ^''''\''r '" ^^'"-'^t, and 
 
 , How nuioh .nor ° ,oe ' fui Ve 'r^'.''^^^^'^^^''^^ '' 
 « ways been sustain' by lio\v .!•'"'' '^^'^ ^'^^"' ''^^^ ^^« 
 ^''ureh J And how n a V an a nno^ f /-'^l "^ ^'^^ ^^''^^^ 
 countrvmon.bpartsc I Ml '^ ' ''"''' o"ly fell on our 
 
 ;^i^i.t have kindled -.th'; b:::';r'"' t fr ^" ^'-^ «««. 
 
 i'^eilow.Christian.s ' if > , 1 ,'' f V ' '''f'''' oHioavcnly love 
 '"uch more do ^^o) No fid o/l J ' '''"'^';'^ '^'■"^-«' ho«^ 
 -ne of- our Lord's strz^L. il^^ %,;;."?/r'^'y '"o-inds 
 l^y nothin. but by prayer ,n,?V!;; "."'' ''""^^''^ ^orth 
 
 <^anceofourtoils^aKucccss W f//;'^' "''' ^'^ '^bun- 
 termit this groat dutv, more u C v ''1"'?''"^ ^^^ '« '"' 
 
 ft>r the greater sacrifico hid 'f H ' . '"^"''' ''' observance; 
 . which f. required o const" Tr'' '^ ^"''^"S"' ^'^^ ^^^ 
 
 that/«///,soimIisponsabh^^b "u^;.! -^'^'^ V°°' ''"''"''^ '"^P'^'e 
 J'Hve so often faileT and o , .'" "''"^^ our best schemes 
 
 that divine faith which .m' nl " ''r ^'^'' ^''"^ ^^^^ted- 
 "s to endure as seein' ^ tiT '^'^^PPttments, enables 
 that His word cannot .'^turn vol ° 's "msible, and recollect 
 to mourn the anost^nl nf ^ ' ''''"^'^' ^'^^^ ^hen doomed 
 
 od, enables us to Se""^ "'iT "^'"' ^°"^ ^^-"^' 
 
 still, He will be gloS anSl t, "f ^"'"'J '^^"°t gathered, 
 
 and which, as the ark of om I ^ ^"''"'^ "'^^^^ ««<^"'-ed 
 
 •over the moral tluct wZb ?'' ^T ''''^''' ^"^ ""-««y 
 
 •assures us thnt fi ^ " "*^^^ submerges nu- countrv- 
 
 us that the waters will in due time subside Ye^' 
 
194 
 
 THE CXrSE. 
 
 and by fnith would we not cfTfCt ns brilliant acTiiovrmenls a» 
 ever lu.ri. nt saints iH-rforrncd ! It is this glorious Hr»ce, 
 which, whfn other priiicii.lfcs of benevolence are faint and 
 iHM.'uici, or half.quenched by vexing disaprointnierits, sti 
 kee'i.s the heart fixed on Jesus as ihe author and the end ot all 
 we do, and enables us to pursue the same evenly course ol 
 humble devotedness, whether we experience successor luilurc, 
 thanks or iuirratilude. Lfi minor motives rise or tali as ll.ey 
 may bent alli the power of this hravciily faiili, our gruvd one 
 rnuains the san;e ; and wo move on in the path ot duly to our 
 Master, like the planets which continue their course round the 
 «;un and scarce fi<-l the disturbance of the thousand stars that 
 surround them. This, moreover, would inspire us w.tli that 
 wisdom so peculiarly needed in a field so arduous. J he mis- 
 manaucd Protestantism of bygone days has left our mission- 
 aries a vast inlurilance of difficulties. And we have not only 
 to contend with the consf qurnt pn judices of the Papist apainst 
 the Sassenach, so artfully rinbitterid by an envenomed pi'iest- 
 hood but the proverbial difficulties which always attend the 
 r,occvpunon of an old field that has been spoiled in the culti- 
 vation, and the evangelizaiion of a race when the best lime 
 for enliohtenin-r ihern has passed away, and the tides ol oppor- 
 tunity a^e at le>asl half-run— a race, moreover, whose singular 
 mental conformation requires so much careful study and sk- 
 
 ful treatment. , 
 
 Thus might we proceed, at almost any length, and .show 
 that every rrqiiisite we need is embraced in, or flows from a 
 revival of religion. But our space will only permit us \o no. 
 lice one'^other grace, which in no country is more required, 
 vet perhap.s in none is less practised than in Ireland ; and that 
 is DIVINE CHARITY. U IS a distressing fact, that our mission- 
 aries sometimes meet more hindrance from their own brother 
 ministers, than fiom the Popish priests ; and that there are 
 some amongst us who have not even the Puseyite s plea, but 
 hold the same evangelic views, and profess the same love t(> 
 Jesus and to souls, who yet act as if they would rather let 
 millions perish than be saved by other hands than their own. 
 We are willing, in part, to excuse them, on the grouna ol 
 earlv piTJudice! Some of our dear brethren grow up in the 
 b< lief that llifirs is the chvrch, and all others are schismatics; 
 that they are the clergy, and all others are intruders ; and that 
 it were as reasonable to trespass on their farms as their pan.h- 
 es Their own sections of the church bounds the horizon oi 
 
 .. ^ — -..'.^'■avatww^wii 
 
[ments as 
 IKS yriice, 
 
 faint and 
 lenls, still 
 
 end of nil 
 
 course of 
 or failure, 
 all as ihey 
 grand one ■ 
 uiy to our 
 
 round the 
 I stars that 
 i Willi that 
 
 The mis- 
 r niission- 
 'e not only 
 )ist against 
 ned prifst- 
 
 alKiid the 
 1 the culti- 
 
 best lime 
 s of oppor- 
 se singular 
 y and ski' 
 
 and show 
 .ws from a 
 it us to nO' 
 5 required, 
 \ ; and that 
 II r niission- 
 wn brother 
 there are 
 s plea, but 
 me love to 
 rather let 
 their own. 
 ground of 
 / up in the 
 ^hisnr.atics ; 
 s ; and that 
 heir pariah- 
 horizon of 
 
 TAE TREATMENT— EVANGELIZATION. 
 
 ■■^ •.. 9 
 
 195 
 
 tl.eir thoughts nnd afTrclions. To h.^ar ihom -,. ,i • 
 
 ainonirst us- <fii'..n tii-;,, . in • ^ cawiouc fiKn'riiitiit 
 cliiiil'. And iiov,.,- „, ,., ^^'^aus; i.iiiiii.iisu,i,|j|„ mis. 
 
 .|Unom,cl„.^,fc.,,,„,„i,,,,j;.l°-'.,;-'"'n;.^^^ 
 " .he abuses or.l.o l,i°f eIm „tm "!, "i ■"■ ""' «'''"« 
 
 m much hoKllaur ™^ ml "","'' t""'"' ""^ '" ''"'""S 
 
 promise~vvhrJn,t n '^''^'*'" ^^-^P^'"'^'^"" «nd '^om 
 
 S.ey an n^^^ e one''~wh:' ^ T'^l'^^ '^"^^'^ '"^"""' 
 - follow not witMhem'~..H f'^"'^? «»<J «l'"n all who 
 «s the Cathoirc CI urd. 7.? t '.°' '''".'^ ^"«'^""S '^^^ "^^''•« 
 il« truest rrk ' ' '^ ^^'^"''^ e^clusivcncss wore 
 
196 
 
 THE CUHE. 
 
 Arifl now, fi'llow-CJiristinP *. a word ore wo cIosp. Are jjoo 
 $ wuro of the (iaiifrrTs tliut m, , rv yoii ? Tlio sinldrii rcvolu- 
 tiuir of lwl8 nmile son).' think llic millcnniuin liud da\vn<'d 
 uniiwarps ; l.ut we would rocomnimd tlio portf ntous chnui^o 
 whicli Ims sincn occurred, as a use f'ul stu(!y to those who, 
 refrardkss of all history, are nccustomrd to despise the ennrts 
 of Rome. Ihr priests uiiiff bo as stupid as they think tliem 
 to be; but is this the character of tlicir C^vat Advertiser? 
 Mow often have those acts of Rome, which Protestant simpli- 
 city has viewed us " blumlers," turned out to bo mere feints . 
 and it nmch depends, indeed, on Protestants themselves 
 whether the late ajr^ression may not prove one of these. 
 
 Tho man who knows the prodijiious projjress Rome has 
 made for the last fifty years, and the stupendous eiforts she 
 is now piittinir fortli,' an.i y«-t would despise any move slio 
 makes in her deep and dreadful <rame, must he fjivcn over t(> 
 strange infatuatiou. Have wo not seen her seizing the chief 
 seats of learning in England, and from thence deluging the 
 land with disguised Popery? Mas not ber stalF of Popish 
 priests in that country increused, during the last 00 years, 
 from scarce 50 till now tlveiv are bight iiundkf.d and forty- 
 EIGHT, with their full complement of schools, colleges, con- 
 vents, and chapels ?* Has not the Popish population of Great 
 Britain, in the same time, grown in proportion ? lias liot 
 Popish infiuence for years virtually controlled the legislature, 
 and ruled the empire ? Have we not seen Popery, during 
 the last three years, rolling l)ack, by its own single arm, the 
 tides of progress over broad Europe ; shrouding the bright sun 
 of the nineteenth century with a deep eclipse ; and causing 
 her creatures of night to creep forth in the gloom, as tiiou^h 
 it were really the midnight of the twelfth ? And is it anvid 
 such warnings of Providence, enforced as they are by those 
 of vropheaj, that any Christian can sit careless u..J. >. c;uvo f 
 Is It when a drama of awful grandeur is being enacted nronnd 
 us, when the elements of society are in a fermen. -■•«.'. / cn.ups 
 unparalleled, and when, on a due infusion of the gospel into 
 the seething mass, it must mainly depend whether the issue 
 will be putrefaction or purification,— is it at suck a time, 
 f^ilow-Christians, that any of us sliall be found sleeping, 
 
 ..n. speeiid duty it is to preside over the process, and direct 
 
 •' CaUiolic Dii-cctory>l852. 
 
TIIR TRRATMENT— EVANGUM/ATION. 
 
 197 
 
 
 Christians of Groat nrituiti ! you owe our countryrtian much 
 Tar |)iist n.';,Mcct, uii.l soinotliiii-j;, too, fur Ms past sorvicos. Sido 
 by side wiih his Mritish oo.niM.in has \u>. pros^cl fnrwiini in 
 tho nirilis of ij.uith, witli thiit diiniii,' courii;,'o \vl,i.;ii is pcfju. 
 iiirly his own. Ami when you huvo oinpioyod him iu work 
 loss lionornhic, has ho sorvod you witii Irss fidelity? Are 
 not those CJirifils and railways which aro tho mouuiiionts of 
 you: j,'reatnes3, memorials, too of his humble toil f Thea 
 wdl you aid in sonditii,' him that gospel which has so exalted 
 you, and tho lack of which has kr-pt him so do^'railod ? Kx. 
 tend our franchise till every babo hos a vote ; d^rain ourcoun- 
 try to its mountain tops; increaso your grants till we live on 
 your bounty, — and all must bo vain while the poisonous va- 
 pors of error and vice are steaming up over tho whole land, 
 and blasting every seed of improvement you sow. And think 
 you that you have but little interest in tho issue ? See Imw 
 Irish Popery is pervading your senate, drenching your coun- 
 try, flooding your colonies, and threatening terrible retribution 
 for your past neglect. How few of your large towns have 
 not now an " Irish quarter ?" Are not Irish Papists covering 
 your fair land like locusts ? and these, too, tho very worst 
 class, who can neithsr cross tho ocean nor exist at home. 
 Are they not at this moment the chief drains on your taxes, 
 contributors to your crimes, ond corruptors of your moral at- 
 mosphere ? You have tried every means to get rid of the 
 nuisance, but in vain. In Liverpool you established a quar- 
 amine, in hope to keep them back ; but found that as reason- 
 ably did Canute command the waves to retire. From London 
 you sent them home in droves, to return in greater force by 
 the next tide. Then finding it hopeless to get quit of them, 
 you have next tried to entig/itcn t/iem, and been driven by the 
 stern requirements of self-preservation to establish Irish Town 
 Missions in various cities; but you have found it utterly im- 
 possible to overtake by any snch agency the swarms that 
 are fast gathering around you. 
 
 Yet vast as their influx now is, it threatens daily to in- 
 crease ; so long as Ireland continues to sink, will they con- 
 tinue to fly from her — and Britain is their nearest asylum. 
 Do you nrt see new hordes daily encamping amid your "civili 
 zation, like Bedouins amongst the columns of Palmyra, or 
 Goths an)il the gardens of Italy? And do you not by this 
 time perceive that either you must do something to save Ire. 
 land, or she will do much to destroy you ? Unce it was a 
 
 9* 
 
108 
 
 TH« CURK. 
 
 question of mere benevolence— it has now assumed a much 
 grnvpr form. If the pauper statistics of Manchester be a fair 
 sau.ple of those r,.' your othor towns, then is the one-halt ot 
 your paupers Irish ; and while, since 184fi, hnplish pauper- 
 ism has, in that town, increased but 7 per cent., Irish pauper- 
 ism has, in the same time, grown above 300 per cent . . 1 et, 
 what is the mere financial curse to those more deadly mora^ 
 ones which these wretched beings are inflicting on you . 
 Therefore, we repeat, you must for your own sake s take up 
 this question as you have never yet done. It is sheer folly to 
 cry '' We are sick of Ireland ;"— if you do not take our adx-ice, 
 vou will assuredly have cause to be still more sick of her. 
 there stands that great moral marsh by your sido ; and you 
 have your choice to help us to drain its putrid waters, or take 
 the consequences in the pestilence and death which must fol- 
 low its poisonous exhalations. British fellow-Christians ! we 
 implore you, shake ofT that security which, amid all those 
 perils, vermUs your rulers to foster Popery ; ay, and shelter 
 those Jesuits whom even Popish countries have expelled. 
 Else the star of Britain's glory, which rose with the Reforma- 
 tion, may have reached its zenith, and be destined ere long to 
 eo down. May God avert the day! But should Britain 
 Continue to favor the " whore," we are persuaded it is not 
 remote : for never yet did country partake of " her crimes 
 without also receiving of «' her plagues." And truly mourn- 
 ful it would be if the future historian should have to trace to 
 Irish Popery the decline and fall of the greatest empire on 
 which the sun ever shone in the circuit of his glorious way— 
 if he should have to tell how Britain permitted the viper to 
 grow unmolested by her side, and even coming to think its 
 nature changed, began to fondle and caress the dangerous 
 creature, till soon as it found itself strong enough, then true 
 to its venomous instincts, it turned and stung to death the too 
 unsuspecting bosom which had nourished it mto vigor by its 
 
 warmth ! „ . . , i • 
 
 Nor is it the inhabitants of Great Britain only who are in- 
 terested in Ireland's fate- it concerns a large portion ol the 
 civilized world— for what has it long been but a nest and 
 nursery of Popery sending forth its annual swarms of wretch- 
 ed beings to infest the remotest regions of the gl ;be ! Along 
 the rive^-s of America, by the lakes of Canada, on the plains 
 of Australia, you meet them in droves. It is said that -0 
 years a^o there was, in the latter country, hut one solitary 
 
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 tU^t. ^ 
 
 freedom to teil you „,„, ,,,' ;.,"! "'■«* "K«ina EurS 
 ™«e of republicon™ f " O nfll"""', "'^ ">">"y and The 
 
 pent which hassoLj^""''^"'"''"""'- be,v "e " Th' "■'"" 
 
 ' -"""g i>u£ the ocean thnt v^n„ , '"^ ' '"'^"Cx-, and di. 
 
 ocean that rolls bet,veen1&ri 
 
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200 
 
 THE CURE. 
 
 this, be assured, can only be so lc.g as both^W^^ 
 
 those Reformation P^^^'P^fV Lr if need bo, with their 
 greatness, and be prepared o defend if need ^ 
 
 blood that divine legacy lett to ^"«. "V,; .^ . u^rs." 
 
 " worthies," and to the other by l>er ? P'^^'' '"i"/;^^^^^ our 
 
 have been bless d in our eoa"^J^^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 have lived to witness a g a ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ 
 
 to thousands of as ovely samples ot g ^^^ ^^^ ^^.^^ ^.^j^_ . 
 
 ever be seen on this side ot g ory " P ^^e throne 
 
 out the fame of martyrs, ^"'^;X hi "hest «"stocracy of hea- 
 above, and take rank amongst the behest ns^cra y ^^^ ^.^ 
 ven. To such we now appeal. Beloved in^^^ What won- 
 the sun of hope beam on us so ^J 'g^tly as now ^.^ 
 
 ders has God oV^LLTIriesr potr disarmed Romish 
 'pTejuii^ foS ttt^taffsly. and turned upon us the 
 
 •^¥hfd?;':ii^lfpopery-ji^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 beams of heaven begin ^g'^^^!"^^/ Hrstr^n^hold ; that 
 
 away the Irish Celt s jeproacn a g ^^. j^,^^ 
 
 „,ind from the ^^^^P^.^^Verv has for centuries hindered, 
 character whose growth Pope y nas ^^nderfully they 
 
 like seeds in the mummy's ^^^^^^^ ^^^"^^^^^^^^^ the quicken- 
 
 are now ^P^^ sL^^o^RiStS-^^^^^^^^^ ^^^' ^'^ ^-1 
 
 ingraysoftheSuno K.g'it ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ence a social 
 
 has pleased, by means oi in ' ^ ^ ^.^e country's 
 
 i„ craftiest "I'l^'^^Zlf^J^ZlL its weakness--;^. 
 ="*T;t\r a"; mul SledTke .un,>.er insoCs, vanish l,ke 
 
 Cri^its: ;«es L on. o^-;ts P;;^-j;;-;-S 
 
 1 J'sLe yea?i; ::: .o al^ appearance, .hey now n,ust do, 
 
 '^-Sli 
 
hold fast 
 3f all their 
 with their 
 martyred 
 ers." 
 ' duty, our 
 
 instead of 
 itmosphere, 
 would now 
 i. But we 
 n now point 
 and as may 
 2 faith with- • 
 r the throne 
 racy of hea- 
 
 ! never did 
 
 What won- 
 )W have his 
 ned Romish 
 I upon us the 
 
 land, and the 
 Our heroic 
 nghold ; that 
 nning to take 
 1 waking his 
 erms of Irish 
 ries hindered, 
 derfuUy they 
 
 the quicken- 
 ;his all. God 
 ence a social 
 
 the country's 
 its numbers — 
 narriages, and 
 But how vain 
 ir them ! He 
 
 weakness — its 
 Dts, vanish like 
 are starving — 
 nthored ! And 
 if things go on 
 
 now must do, 
 
 'nlnn*-! ,• • 
 
 "opprv in t,,„i„ j . . "01 
 
 perish L\ ^ "^^'"''I'mnir, tliev <,fn • . '' ^*'°"^d bid 
 
 from Kr,™, ,„■'"«'' '" "l«^"v-fram 1 "'■'^""""■y; '"' 
 " tJie name „f ,^ ^ ' liouforc, ivf sny ,„ ,|,^„,_„'''v' 
 
 IS at War], k., V • ^^ '" "le darJfnpss P..^ • i ' ^^ ^'e- 
 
 not arrest f;i« °^ ^he rums a fl-iiro.. r i, • "' frame- 
 
 «.e -l4 > J?:,::;?- "'""W we if":'e t™ ■ ,f f -„. 
 
 spair O , : '""'^' "'■'^"' J^'"- J°ue has h f' '" ^"'^'' « 
 
 -"'•'^ 'iclvatitage, and 1, 
 
 y turn your 
 ave never beniir'lued 
 
203 
 
 THB CtTRK. 
 
 where th^y have not enslaved ? And, will you trust your 
 souls to unn with vvlioiti you wduM seldom trust your sub- 
 st.iiic;i ? —and r.ifus-i evau to iiiiuire till it is too lute to amend ? 
 Thfjn, by that brilliant mind too lon^j enslaved, and that jjene- 
 rous heart too long imposed on, exert the birthright God has 
 given you, and judge for yourselves, as }i)u must answer for 
 yourselves. Nor think your priest alone will be accountable 
 if you continue to follow him blindfolded to ruin, any more 
 tlun would your guide alone be the sufferer if you allowed 
 him to lead you over some fatal cliff. And you, their blind 
 guides! — you must soon meet them at that judgment-seat, 
 where your very best apology shall be,—" We did it igno- 
 ranlly in unbelief." If we adinil: your honesty, it mu.'-t be 
 by denying your intelligence — fearful alternative this, be- 
 tween ignorance and imposture ? O, b'^hold the fruits of 
 your dreadful diligence m the wreck of the finest people ihe 
 great Creator ever firmed ! And think yiu, shall that mock- 
 ery of justice, which so often sullies our earthly tribunals, 
 that punishes them, and pensions you, tarnish the purity of 
 the Great White Throne ? No, he who robs men of the key 
 of knowledge, shall tkere at least bo held accountable for all 
 the consequences; that ignorance which will be their pallia- 
 tion, shall constitute the main count in your indictment; and 
 •whatever punishment may on this ground be deducted from 
 their sentences, must necessarily be added to yours. And are 
 you prepared for a reckoning so awful ? If not, even for you 
 there is hope — ind this is the crowning proof of God's bound- 
 less love. The grace which arrested Saul of Tarsus, was 
 designed as encouragement in cases so desperate; and that 
 miracle of grace m ly again be performed, which made " a 
 great company of the priests obedient to the faith." 
 
 THE END. 
 
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